Nathan Bransford

Not heard of him? He's one of them literary agents from the US of A (and soon to be a published author himself). He blogs regularly on the state of the publishing world, gives out a lot of handsome advice for free, and is an all-round 'good egg' type of guy.

I love his latest post.

The fact is, I'm a bear of very little patience. I'm bored already of all this submissions palaver. And yet at the same time I'm excited - very excited - about the future of book publishing: opportunities (if not riches) are sprouting around us like weeds in spring.

I can see where these thoughts are going already and I am not scared, not scared at all ...