Random surfing this evening brought me to a brutal and erudite post on the web site of author Chuck Wendig (not, I should add, a client, but a wise and level head nonetheless).

If you’re picking around this site looking for tips on how to approach an agent, or you’re perhaps trying to fathom whether you even need one, you could do a lot worse than checking out Wendig’s 25 Things Writers Should Know About Agents.

Amen.