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A recent post by Victoria Strauss is one that answers a question I have heard time and again: How Not to Seek a Literary Agent: The Perils of “Middleman” Services. Strauss begins: “I know I’ve written about this before [this links to a previous article]. But I’m seeing an increasing number of these kinds of ‘services,’ and they are all worthless.”