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Do You Need An Agent in 2012?

This is becoming a tough question to answer. If Doctor Who showed up in the TARDIS and whisked you and I back even three years I’d have said yes, you absolutely need an agent if you want a career as a writer. These days there are definite ways to make it without one. Perhaps a [...]

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The Odds (of getting published). Beat Them. Part One.

We’re told all the time what terrible odds we have of making it as writers.  We’re told agents reject 99.9% of everything they receive. We’re told only 5% of fiction authors make a decent living.* We’re told we’d be better off buying lottery tickets than trying to make it big in publishing. The numbers, such [...]

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Ten Reasons I Still Want An Agent in 2011

I’ve not made any secret of the fact that I want an agent.  Even though some people say that agents are a dying breed and self publishing is the way to go, I’m still going to be approaching agents (through carefully worded and edited query letters) to represent me and my writing. Here’s why: 1.  [...]

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