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I'm 46, Married with two sons. This blog will document my attempt to get my children's novel published.
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Browsing Archive: October, 2013

Advice on agent hunting

Posted by Russell Sanderson on Thursday, October 31, 2013, In : General Writing Advice 
Although I've not yet signed with an agent myself, I have had a fair amount of success in getting agents to read my manuscript, so I must be doing something right.  As a result a number of other unpublished writers have asked me for advice on how to go about it.  Given that I've repeated this advice a number of times, I think it might be worth putting it on the blog.  If you're writing something and hope to one day publish, hopefully you'll find it useful.

The first thing I'd say is that getti...
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It's been a while....

Posted by Russell Sanderson on Saturday, October 12, 2013, In : Agent update 
Ok - so I haven't posted recently but that doesn't mean that nothing's been happening. I heard back from the agent that I'd sent my improved manuscript to and he agreed - it was much much better, BUT (and there's always a 'but', isn't there?) it still needed a "final polish."   He said that he might have taken me on a year ago when he was still in the early stages of building his list, but now he likes writers to be 100% before he signs them up because he represents the writer, not the book a...
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