Words from a gatekeeper

As far as we know, it's not too often that a star literary agent opens up on the state of the industry, so this candid interview with rainmaker Chris Parris-Lamb in the always-illuminating Guernica magazine is well worth a read: http://bit.ly/1AyPEWk.

Despite the changes sweeping the publishing world Parris-Lamb remains defiantly traditional in some of his beliefs - not least that writers deserve to earn a respectable living and that good editors are still very much a necessity in the days of self-publishing. Full agreement from the n/n bunker on both counts.