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One of the commonest misconception about both publishers and agents is that they can open doors and rustle up TED talks or long reads for their authors. It’s an understandable delusion. Unpublished and unrepresented writers spend far too much of their time alone conjuring up fantasies on the page. It is hardly a surprise if some of that leaches out into their own life