Scavengers

Back in the eighties, my best friend from high school got sucked into Faces International, where she paid a significant amount of money for the chance to be discovered as a model. Someone I know now has fallen for a similar scheme to get her book published and has set up a Go Fund Me to do it. The hype I see around getting an agent - seminars, conventions, books and trainings about how to write books and queries, books and trainings about how to get published - it all feels pretty close to that lower level of production/scamming. But my husband reminds me that no matter how good (or bad) what you have to offer is, it still has to get noticed by the right person to get born and introduced to the world. It's all pretty overwhelming and foreign.