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Originally Posted by ApK
Publishers would only accept manuscripts from agents. Part of the gate-keeping process.
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Getting an agent is more difficult than finding a publisher and more important in ensuring the book will be read. I know writers who have never found agents despite their published books' receiving rave reviews. I also know kids who have never finished writing a single book and already have them.
William T. Vollmann is a famous example of a writer who refused to use an agent. His method was to go to another country, write a book, and use the profits from its sale to go to another country and write another book. He looked like such a solid enterprise that agents lined up, but he didn't choose to use one.