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She quotes author Robert Weinberg here as saying that at bottom an agent should be like "a good Jewish mother...Pushy, annoying, constantly questioning, and wanting the very best for you". And a writer, Perkins reminds us, should let her writing do the talking: "While I remember getting a query with a blood-dripping plastic axe", she cautions, "I don't remember the book". Finally, in case you think all those agents are just a bunch of heartless deal-makers, guess again. "There is no bigger accomplishment", says Perkins, "than seeing one of the books that I have sold in a bookshop or in the hands of someone reading it on the train". --Jane Steinberg
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