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Originally Posted by indie
I have read some of the blog posts, which are very useful, but if other indie authors had lit agents, would they have a better change of success?
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Possibly. If you're an author, you write for a living, if you're lucky, you're good at selling your work too. I know I can communicate well but I'm not the best at selling so I don't expect to do enormously well with my book. If I had an agent, there would be somebody who actually sells books for a living to... well... er sell my book. It would be, kind of, a relief to have somebody else taking care of all that.
On the other hand, I'm not really aiming at the paper market, fine if it does well but it's not my primary concern and would an agent know much more than me about selling an e-book outside conventional publishing channels? At this point, possibly not since they'd probably do the same or similar on-line research to me.
So, in summary of my long winded answer, yes, but only if you're looking at selling through conventional channels, I'm not sure many of us on here are doing that.
Cheers
MTM