You need to be canny, careful, and assiduous in your search for an agent or a publisher, but—this bears repeating—the most important thing you can do for yourself is read the market.
They see the world increasingly as one vast, interconnected marketplace in which corporations search for the most advantageous locations to buy, produce and sell their goods and services.
With the value of vintage bottles hitting hundreds of thousands of dollars, Chinese auction houses have begun scouring the country in search for valuable rarities.