Thanks James and Nancy,
I really appreciate your notes here. The problem is, I had an agent recently, one of the supposedly good ones. Last week she dropped me. Our contract was just for six months. She has excellent reviews and write ups and is in all the important books and is listed as a good agent on P&E.
This person worked hard with me for three months. We fixed up my novel. Here's what happened; First, she told me to get out there, get endorsements and cause a stir, then she would pitch my book.
Well, I don't know anyone, but I did this any way, against my beliefs. It's not an enjoyable taks of emailing authors , asking for endorsements, but I got them, because she requested them.
After I had all my material that the agent requested, I gave it to her. I even wrote my own pitch for the most part. It seems like she barely did anything but submit what I gave her to her contact editors through emails. No, she never even sent one of them a hard copy of the ms.
After 30 editors rejected my ms, she suggested that I change so many things in my novel, that it would be a botched shell of what I was trying to write about. I am open to change, but this was unbelievable. Still, I was open to change, but she STILL dropped me.
It took me hundreds of queries to get an agent, so now I've gone through the agent "pool" and I don't know what to do next. I know you haven't read my ms, but a lot of editors said I was a great writer, but it just wasn't "right" for them. I suppose that's a compliment, but will never know what it really indicates.
Thanks again for any ideas.