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8th December 2020
It’s
alive, Dr Frankenstein, it’s alive!
Did I by now regard what I’d created as a monster? Not exactly, but I was made restless by...
Ready to publish
You feel you have a finished manuscript and would like to learn more about approaching agents, publishers and/or about independent publishing.
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8th December 2020
The
Literary Agency Blues
“Well I woke up this morning/Got a letter in the mail/’Yeah, we like your novel/But it ain’t the Holy Grail...
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10th December 2020
In fact there are certain ways of writing a synopsis that guarantee I will reject a submission point-blank.
A synopsis is NOT like the...
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8th December 2020
It may be obvious from the size of the parcel that what is enclosed is a manuscript, but forget the letter and you lose a really big opportunity...
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8th December 2020
Start again. As an author trying to engage interest, you need to tempt them with fascinating and relevant details. Neither agent nor...
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8th December 2020
But suddenly it strikes you that the last thing you have to think about, the covering letter, is the first thing your audience is going to...