Want more praise and attention, authors? Try self-parenting

Now that I have *your* attention, you codependent wretches, the real point is that good self-parenting will save your soul and sanity.

Book publishing is traumatizing for people who love certainty. It brings out our inner children.

As my colleague Kate McKean has written in her own excellent newsletter, anxiety management is a huge part of any literary agent’s job. Our authors ask us all manner of highly specific, superficially situational career questions every day: “what does this sin…