Sometimes it’s harder to get a good agent than to get published. And you want a GOOD agent. A bad agent can do more damage to your career than you can imagine.
They are available at any bookstore—chain (Barnes and Noble, Borders, Books-a-Million or independent (privately owned) —and also at many Wal Marts, Targets, K-Marts, grocery or drug stores.
I’m actually considered a fairly prolific writer. I’ve been writing for 2 houses (Harlequin and St Martin’s for several years, as well as doing novellas for both them and other houses.) Some people write faster than I do, some slower. Each writer can only write at their own speed and as fast as they “get” the ideas from wherever it is those ideas come from. I don’t like to think about where my writing comes from because I’m afraid if I analyze it too much, it’ll stop coming!
It takes me 3-4 months to write a book, but that’s not including the brainstorming and proposal time, which usually comes several months to a year or more before I write it and the production time after I turn it in—which includes rewrites, copy edits and galley reviews.
