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What I Learned This Week: Why I Say No


Reading literary agent Janet Reid’s interesting post on the reasons she rejected manuscripts last year gave me the inspiration to tally up my own thanks-but-no-thanks to see what came across my desk during 2009. We moved offices last February and I’ve never relocated my copies of reject letters from January and February ‘09, but from March through December I passed on 133 manuscripts. Here were the reasons why:

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WHAT I LEARNED THIS WEEK: The care and feeding of authors


Authors and editors frequently become good friends. Both know that the professional relationship may not last forever–either can change publishing houses–but I’ve learned never to say a final goodbye, because the winds of change can bring people back together just as easily as it parted them. So has it been with me and Elizabeth Moon, [...]

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