Unsolicited Advice for Literary Agents: Reply to submissions, even if it's to say no. How much time does it really take to send a form...

So, eventually, I found a publisher for my book, after a spot of rewriting and some lessons which I share here free of charge: Lesson...

It wasn't quite libel: my celebrity ex hadn't exactly made stuff up about me, despite a fair amount of spicing and omission. What he had...

I got some rejections. Which was bound to happen and put me in perfectly good company. Plus it was still early days: Marlon James's first...

I printed out my submission packages for agents 4,5 and 6, old-timers who wanted hard copies (cover letter, synopsis, first chapters). I...

The 'churning female degradation' bugged me but I had other agents to be fantasising about, with my so many irons in the fire. There were...

I braced myself to get a hundred rejections. I didn't really but that's what I told myself I was doing. I'd read a blog about it. I...

My novel was finally done and ready to submit to a choice selection of literary agents. Well it was kind of done. I'd been working on it...

One day my regular newsletter from the big agency whose debut novel competition I'd failed to win brought me exciting news. They'd be...

Sometimes, during the many lonely years it took to write my novel TWICE, I'd consult the online Tarot to discover how my book would get...