re: I've just published my third mystery novel

Congrats, LR - I've been considering trying to get some outlines of projects in a final format. I'm finally retiring from my part time job and am considering either pursuing a higher academic degree online or, perhaps, writing. Now, I'm pretty lazy so it will probably go nowhere, but I get lots of ideas and not all of them are bad.

I'm curious as to how you went from that stage (approximately where I'm at) to having an agent, a publicist and product actually out in the marketplace - and just the procedures and mechanics of it, assuming I get something in at least editable/completable form?