Agent rambling

Elsewhere on LJ, someone I've met in person has just finished a novel that they feels is hard to define. Names left off, because I actually want to say a few things about this that I feel are of interest in general, and didn't ask if I could be specific.

First, I've read some of the author's published short fiction, and I consider it quite good and tonally consistent, which is sometimes hard to achieve when starting out. Novels are a different beast than short stories, but it's for novels that agents are usually found; short fiction is almost never (but not never) represented unless it's a collection.
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