Q. Who are you?
A. I’m a literary agent based out of New York. This blog is (mostly) unrelated to that.
Q. What is this, exactly?
A. A blog, not unlike other blogs in that I use it to share things I’ve found on the internet that I like, to review books or movies or TV shows or breakfast cereal toys.
Q. How often do you update?
A. At whim.
Q. I have this idea for a book…
A. I’m glad you do, but I won’t respond to your online entreaties. If you must send me something, first go to my agent profile to read up on what I’m actually interested in.
Q. But my idea is different!
A. Great. If it’s more than an idea, read my agent profile to see what I’m looking for. Send via snail mail, and not by email or blog comment or even carrier pigeon (being as it’s New York, you’re all too likely to lose your carrier pigeon when he/she meets the love of his/her life on one of the many statues of Abraham Lincoln our fair city boasts).
Q. Can you link to my blog?
A. Maybe. If I like it or have good reason to, I will. If not, don’t cut yourself. It’s not healthy.
Q. That post I linked to changed. WTF?
A. I probably revised it in light of learning something new, bothering to research enough to add a citation, etc. If you don’t like it, remember that Raymond Carver was an inveterate reviser of his work.
1. Raymond Carver was quite the reviser… but some would credit Gordon Lish as much as Carver himself for what we know today as his “complete works.” Is this erroneous? Mostly. Is it a detriment to your quip? Nope. Might it be of interest to you? I’d think so, go look into how much things changed in the final few edits if you don’t already know.
2. I don’t know who you are linking to and where you want this blog’s “direction” to go, but go ahead and link to me if it’s something of interest. You’ll show up on my blogroll soon, as my relationship with you and your content back up what my blog is “about.”
Hi Eddie, nice to meet you on Monday. I came across your site from your LInkedIn profile. Woody Allen? The? Anyway, to give you an idea of how a blog can get out of hand, try mine. It was very elaborate around 2002-2003, so click on a month from the pulldown menus on the homepage. A couple of years ago, I actually stopped, and then have been reforming it recently, but it’s just diary notes now. You’ll see what I mean.