At Marianne Strong agency, when Jason inherited my novel from the fiction agent who was leaving, he was upfront about not liking fiction and not particularly interested in marketing it. After a few months he said he was taking a workshop in how to market fiction. I couldn't get him to tell me where he was presenting my book and got no answers to most emails unless I persisted. Finally my 1-year contract was up, and I bowed out--to his surprise. It was like pulling teeth to get a list of the 5 or 6 publishers he had tried, one of which I had suggested. Perhaps writers with nonfiction projects will get better results. I felt my book had lost a year.