So you’ve sold a book. Congratulations! You’ve achieved your dream, right? Well, yes and no. Because you didn’t just want to sell a book; you wanted to be a writer. That means building a successful writer’s life—doing what you need to do to stay in the game, year after year, and enjoy the writing career [...]
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Literary agents read a lot of manuscripts. At my agency, we ask to see an average of two or three a week. That means we need a way to quickly weed out the rejects, so we’ll have time to read the rest. Like other agents, I look for certain signs that tell me right away [...]
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