Don't ever enter the Amazon Break Through Novel Award if you're prone to anxiety. The contest starts with 10,000 entries
In the future, agents will simply troll through the Amazon Best Sellers Rank to find talent.
Author Barry Eisler shocked the publishing world when he walked away from a $500,000 deal with St. Martin's Press so that he could self-e-publish his next John Rain novel.
If a publisher came to me and asked to represent my my novel, promising to shop it around to other publishers, I'd be stunned.
Look out Sony e-reader, Nook and Kobo, because Amazon announced this week that Kindles are now on display and available for purchase at 3,200 Walmart stores.
I prefer to meet agents face to face, eyeball to eyeball.