A conundrum that confronted me when I had completed and tried to market my first manuscript: no publisher, other than the vanity press, would deign to look at it unless I was already a published author, and no agent would accept me as a client unless I was already represented.  How many gifted writers have never seen the light of day because they weren't given a chance, because they weren't connected?  

Consider the tale of John Kennedy Toole, who wrote A Confederacy Dunces published in 1980, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. 

Enviable?  Not really. 

The only reason the book was published 11 years after the author's suicide, with no small thanks to the same sequences of rejection listed above, was due to his mother's tenacity in getting a publisher to actually read the manuscript she only discovered after his death.  What great works could he have given the world, if given that chance?  How many other John Kennedy Tooles are out there, unread, unpublished, discarded without a fair shot?

It is very hard to market one's work when the rejection of an author's work is, in fact, a rejection of years spent developing a perspective on life, and a rejection of the person.  It is to that end that Cre8tve1 Corporation dedicates a lion's share of its resources.  

Bless you Cre8tve1.