For
about a month after New Year’s Day, the gym is packed with well-intentioned
people using every machine in sight to fulfill their resolutions to lose weight
and get healthy. But wait a minute,
gym-savvy folk know, and it will change.
By mid-Feburary most of the temporary health nuts will be back on their
couches, beer and nachos in hand, and it will be safe for the rest of us to go
to the gym again.
I
suspect that something similar happens at the offices of literary agents around
the country. I reckon that many folks
resolve that THIS is going to be the year they do something with the book they’ve
been tinkering with for umpteen whatevers. Up comes the browser, there goes the
Google search, and *BAM* agents queried
