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The Insider's Guide
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Why they always reject your manuscript - and what you can do about it.

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The Insider's Guide to Getting Published: Why they always reject your manuscript - and what you can do about it. by John Boswell,
Doubleday, 1997
ISBN 0385479360
164 pages
MSRP $12.00

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The Insider's Guide to Getting Published is excellent preparatory reading for any writer hoping to make his fortune as a published author. Did you know that Stephen King's first contract included a tiny $2,500 advance? Did you know that publishing houses are not full of genteel editors who are delighted to spend their days reading new submissions?

No? Then you need this book so that you can understand the actualities of the publishing business for a writer trying to get published or an author being published. Be sure to note the Ten Awful Truths of Publishing.They are true, they are important, and they are ten good reasons for not yet giving up your day job.