Episode one in what will surely prove to be a fascinating and essential series focusing on the world of publishing, and the writer's place within that world.

I, Monty Wisdom, guide you through this world, giving you, the less experienced writer, the benefit of my decades as a working writer.

This first episode talks about agents. What do they do, and are the worth the money they extract from you? (Spoiler: surprisingly little, and unsurprisingly not.)

Later episodes in this series will focus on me: how I spend my days, how and where I write, and why I feel research is for the ill-informed and the cowardly.