Still, that's how the game works unless you're a successful published author and the agents come looking for you. If you can get an author to give you a referral, so much the better. If not, it's query time. There's nothing mysterious about the query process. The tricky part is writing a query that will catch an agent's attention.
Agents pay the rent and feed their families via commissions on manuscript sales.
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