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I (mostly) don’t know who needs to hear this but if your agent seems to have lost interest in your work, doesn’t really read it, won’t sub it, and has generally given you bad feelings about your work and future with them, please give yourself the gift of leaving them in the dust.
It’s hard and it’s scary and I know it can come with the worry that you’ll never publish again, but staying in an agent-client relationship like this may make it so you never *write* again and that has such worse potential. That relationship is slowly crushing you.
You don’t owe anyone to stay in that “partnership,” no matter what they’ve done for you in the past. They lose nothing by keeping you on the hook, but it’s not a kindness. Recognize whether you truly have an advocate in them. If not, be your own and get out.
I know there are people telling you that it’s wrong or not nice for you to leave. There are people who believe this, that leaving one agent brands you a troublemaker. They’re not right. It’s bad advice from people with no clue what they’re talking about and it’s maddening.
Sometimes you’ve changed. Sometimes they’ve changed. Sometimes their client list doesn’t leave space for you. Sometimes the magic really was just in that first book clicking but it was never meant to be. It can be so many things but it is probably NOT that you suddenly suck.
