Writing

I get these daily e-mailed digests for writers. Today, one of the writers on the chick-lit one contributed this:

I might have the best agent story. Way back, when I first started trying to write, and before the internet and email were well established, I had an agent who was.dead. Yep. He'd died the year before and I'd been represented by his secretary all that time. Argh!

Why does this not surprise me?