How to introduce yourself at your Ivy League Writer-Agent mixer to old-guard literary agents and other aging people (a step-by-step guide)

with great gratitude to Columbia University for providing the research space

(Actual image of this staggering campus where I was too terrified and overwhelmed to appreciate the colossal beauty when I went there — with a bonus of a dearly beloved classmate of mine I hadn’t expected to see)

Last night, I attended a four hour Agent-Writer Meet and Greet sponsored by Columbia University. The night was glamorous — a gorgeous campus event space was…