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On the Vulgar Appetite for the “Fact”
I am asked, with a frequency I have come to find wearying, whether the events of my novels "really happened...
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Here a cat, There a cat
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  1. Pamela Jo

    Craft Chat Blue pencil Agency on Writing and their debut novel prize

    https://bluepencilagency.com/online-tutorials-and-q-a/
  2. Pamela Jo

    Craft Chat Irish Debut Novel Comp

    This one is expensive for what you get. 65.00. And I know someone who won it one year and didnt find an agent or publisher from her meetings, but did subsequently from introductions. Tends towards the highbrow serious work over genre. However there is surrounding info that could be useful...
  3. Katie-Ellen

    Agent says now is the rise again of the debut author

    Karolina Sutton at Curtis Brown says HERE that five years ago it was all BRAND, BRAND, BRAND, does this writer have a BRAND? But she says, there is a shift in the wind again...if a Manuscript is wonderful enough. Tally ho. Make it wonderful ... and unique. What could be easier? *cough* says...
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