ISBN 9780143035657, Penguin, 2005

RRP: $23.95 / Member’s Price: $21.08

First the bad news: if you are like most writers, your manuscript will be overlooked, even ignored, and your book will never be published. Now the good news: Knowing and avoiding many common mistakes and bad habits will distinguish you from most writers and help you and your work get taken seriously.

In this lively and plainspoken guide, Pat Walsh, the founding editor of the independent publisher MacAdam/Cage, looks at both writing and publishing – warts and all – to help writers identify and avoid the missteps that keep them from success (you don’t revise, you listen to false praise, you fall for self-publishing hype, and more), along with essential behaviours and attitudes that may lead to publication.

Drawing on Walsh’s years of experience and anecdotes from editors, agents, and published writers, this is one book that tells would-be authors exactly what they’re facing.

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