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How to Avoid Being Published
by L. M. Affrossman
Ever thought getting published is just too easy?
Written from a publisher’s perspective, this book describes the many pitfalls writers encounter when approaching a publishing house and gives expert advice on how to fall into all of them.
Learn:
How to write a terrible cover letter.
A dozen ways to hide your light under a bushel
Methods for messing up a manuscript
Why you should/shouldn’t get an agent
and
How to make a publisher hate you
This book offers all this and so much less.
Warning: Reading this may accidentally make you a better writer.
L. M. Affrossman (Author)
After working as a columnist for a number of technology magazines, L. M. Affrossman moved to writing fiction full time.
Her internationally published debut novel, The Promise, concentrated on the interplay of relationships across the generations and the secrets they were hiding.
Her second and third novel were historical and focused on intrigues and political machinations at the beginning of the first millenium.
She is also known for her work in drama. Her latest play, Die Unvollendete, is published by the theatre company, Schultz and Schirm.
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