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My Rejections
Unsolicited Advice for Agents, Celebrity Exes and Fellow Upcoming Writers
Unsolicited Advice for Literary Agents: Reply to submissions, even if it's to say no. How much time does it really take to send a form...
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My Rejections
5 Lessons That Helped Me Get Published
So, eventually, I found a publisher for my book, after a spot of rewriting and some lessons which I share here free of charge: Lesson...
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8. Unsatisfactory Products
It wasn't quite libel: my celebrity ex hadn't exactly made stuff up about me, despite a fair amount of spicing and omission. What he had...
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7. The Skanks
I got some rejections. Which was bound to happen and put me in perfectly good company. Plus it was still early days: Marlon James's first...
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6. An Aloof & Reclusive Author
I printed out my submission packages for agents 4,5 and 6, old-timers who wanted hard copies (cover letter, synopsis, first chapters). I...
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5. Tear-Jerking Love Stories
The 'churning female degradation' bugged me but I had other agents to be fantasising about, with my so many irons in the fire. There were...
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4: Churning Female Degradation
I braced myself to get a hundred rejections. I didn't really but that's what I told myself I was doing. I'd read a blog about it. I...
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3: Vain Fusspots
My novel was finally done and ready to submit to a choice selection of literary agents. Well it was kind of done. I'd been working on it...
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2: GONE GIRL meets THE DA VINCI CODE
One day my regular newsletter from the big agency whose debut novel competition I'd failed to win brought me exciting news. They'd be...
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1: Idle and Unprofitable Speculation
Sometimes, during the many lonely years it took to write my novel TWICE, I'd consult the online Tarot to discover how my book would get...
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