I've gotten a few requests from readers of this series to write a few words about how I got an agent. It's a step I skipped because I already had an agent - not …
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The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 4: What's in a Cover?
I've got my final cover for The Four Ms. Bradwells, and am so excited about it that I am going to leap ahead in my narrative here to cover the great cover …
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The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 3: Why I LOVE my Editor
You may recall that when last you saw our fearless hero (me!), she'd had the bad judgment to send her editor a revised draft of The Four Ms. Bradwells on …
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The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 2: Brainstorm, and Revise, Revise, Revise!
In Part 1 of this little series, "Manuscript Puberty," I shared the experience of sending a first draft of my new novel, The Four Ms. Bradwells, to my editor, …
The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 1: Manuscript Puberty
I just got my first peek at the likely cover for my new novel, The Four Ms. Bradwells, along with a description of what the book is about. The two together got …
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Ink on the Rejection Slip
A passage that ought to give all struggling writers hope, from Booker-prize winner Graham Swift's Making an Elephant. He's talking about the time before he'd …
The 46th Time is the Charm
Yet another story of persistence paying: Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help, was rejected by forty-five agents before her bestseller found an agent home. …
Even Jack Kerouac Struggled
I recently stumbled upon this NPR story about Jack Kerouac's road to publication for On the Road. A little taste: "Legend has it that Kerouac wrote On the Road …
Eleven Years to a Pulitzer
I was listening to NPR on the way to the grocery store this afternoon, and heard just a snippet of a fascinating City Arts and Lectures discussion with Junot …
