Albion

I so agree with that advice. I met two writers at a conference whose work I had admired and whom I knew slightly online. They were both unneccesarily cold and unprofessional to me. I didn't ask anything of them besides a bit of friendliness. They were both agent-shopping--so was I, as a matter of fact--and I suppose they didn't see me as "useful." They've lost me as a reader.