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It's an incredibly tough time to be in an industry that has a specific "All your work must go through this one person in order to have a shot in the world" pipeline, both for the people producing that work and the one person at the heart of that pipeline, who has no safety net.
It's a pandemic; we're all dropping balls. But there aren't necessarily people there to pick them up when they drop, and it's revealing so many flaws in this model that I don't really know how to get around when real teamwork seems so rare.
I don't know, there's so much I want to say about this that I don't want to look personal to anyone, because it isn't; I think it's a problem that there's so little recourse if your work gets dropped, but also no wiggle room for the people desperate not to drop it.
(Just because someone asked and I extreeemely do not want to give this impression - I am absolutely NOT talking about my agent, who is maybe the most always-on-the-ball person I have ever worked with. I am speaking from guiding people through mid-career querying a LOT this year.)
(I would sing her praises frequently if she were not closed to querying, which she currently is. But when she is not, I truly could not recommend her more highly, as my closest friends can loudly attest, with receipts.)
But really my point is that it's not a singular person or a couple of singular people, but a system that is breaking down at warp speed because it requires people to be superhuman during a time when frankly most of us are barely staying baseline human.
