Autumn took a deep breath. She didn’t want to admit the way she did it. She tried the textbook answer first. “You go to conventions and things, places you’re supposed to meet agents. You talk to them, try to sell them on the idea. Then, if they ask, you send them the first fifty pages. Or, you can look at who represents the authors you like and that your book is similar to. Then you write them query letters.”

“Is that how you did it?”

She let out her breath. ...