Why do writers need agents? To keep track of the rejections

That 10% fee buys a novelist like me more than the chance of a big book deal - from a hand with the DIY to a shoulder to cry on after yet another knockback

A few weeks after the sudden death of my agent, Deborah Rogers, in 2014 the colleague deputed to take me on phoned. I've found something in Deborah's desk."

Yes?"