By Maura Weiler, Author of Contrition Which is worse– an impersonal rejection letter from an agent, or a personalized rejection letter with feedback that would require a massive rewrite of your book with no guarantee that the agent would revisit it? Both. Oh wait… I mean, it all depends. I entered the submission process for…
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Snip, Snip, Snip. Oh, the pain! Cutting your manuscript.
By Robin D. Owens But that was the best line. The funniest. The most heartfelt and tender. And the whole scene must be cut. I write long – that is, for a 100K word novel contract, I usually hit 103K, and have been known to go up to, ah, I think 120K. That means, for…