Quit Smoking Now ™ has put a great deal of emphasis on the elimination of tobacco from your life. It is a must. We ve tried to give you every reason we can imagine for you to quit. As serious as the problems of alcohol and illicit drugs are, in this country tobacco kills many times more people each year than all the drugs and alcohol put together. Even if you add to them all deaths from murder, suicide, accidents and war, tobacco kills more!!! This does not diminish the seriousness of other addictions. If you have any addictions to any chemical substances get help to kick them now! Your life and perhaps the lives of your loved ones, depend on it!
There is a professional organization that most reputable Literary Agents belong to called the "Association of Author's Representatives - AAR). Find out if the literary agent you want belongs to and is in good standing with this association. If they are not, you need to find out why they don't belong or why they are not in good standing.
This is a voluntary membership, so there may be quite legitimate reasons for one not to join. It is an important discussion point if you are hiring a literary agent.
