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Part of that is that agents already know what a particular set of editors like. I know an author who has been published several times who wants to change genres. But the agent won't even send out some of the material written. Either doesn't know an editor who is interested or insists that it's the wrong genre--not popular right now. And this is common. VERY COMMON. In the past, the only way to get work out there was to have an agent who knew editors. The editors trust the agents to vet the work and only send them what they want to see.
It's not to say that every indie is a great writer, but there are proven writers out there STILL struggling to even get their stuff in front of an editor.
Many of us do have editors--and by that I mean more than one. We've learned as we go along which ones are good, which ones help us get better and which ones are affordable. It's really a great time to be a writer.
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