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WHAT IF LITERARY AGENTS DON’T WANT YOUR NOVEL?

By: Emily Wenstrom

I am finally on the verge of submitting my first manuscript to agents after three years of drafting and editing, it’s satisfying to finally reach this milestone.

It’s also terrifying. Because a question is starting to haunt me: What if I don’t get picked?

What if not a single agent wants my manuscript? After all the time and effort I’ve poured into it, giving up is not an option. Even though submission is still a ways off, I’ve identified three options to consider if every agent I query turns me down:

Read the full article HERE!

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If you missed my writing & marketing tweets and retweets yesterday, here they are again:

1. 52 Ways To Sell More Books – Tip #23 http://ow.ly/uaJDx Your 10 Point Website Check Up
2. Claude Nougat's Blog : Is the Amazon Ebook Market Model Broken? http://ow.ly/uaKoH
3. Why self-published authors should know and understand grammar | Self-Publishing Advice http://ow.ly/uaLSL
4. IndieReCon: 6 Smart Ways Authors Can Collaborate When Marketing by Angela Ackerman http://ow.ly/uaM3X
5. Think Like a Publisher 2014: Production and Scheduling | http://ow.ly/uaMN9
6. Publicizing a book? What to Expect… and When! « PubSmart http://ow.ly/uaMXv
7. BookMarketingBuzzBlog: Making Book Sales Happen! http://ow.ly/uaN5H
8. Writer Unboxed » 5 Things I Wished I Knew Before I Published My First Book http://ow.ly/uaNgo
9. 4 Tips to Using Facebook Events to Their Maximum Potential http://ow.ly/uaSsZ
10. The Write Type - Multi-Author Musings: Book Review Inequality Still Happening http://ow.ly/uaUgp
11. Announcing MyBookTable 1.3 | Author Media http://ow.ly/uaXGb Now the #1 WordPress Bookstore plugin in the WordPress repository.
12. Writability: 5 Dual-POV Writing Tips http://ow.ly/uaXV8
13. Amazon Hack: Get Your Book into the Hands of an International Audience http://ow.ly/uaYMd
14. Auspices and Guises http://ow.ly/ub1qo Daily Writing Tips
15. Fiction University (The Other Side of the Story): 5 Ways to Hook Your Readers http://ow.ly/ubbuG
16. Amazon Author Central http://ow.ly/ubct0 "Easy quick way to establish a presence on the world’s biggest book retailer."
17. Guide to Facebook Reach: What Marketers Need to Know | Social Media Examiner http://ow.ly/ubcPm
18. Beginner Week: Bite the Bullet and Start Your Blog with this Seven-Point Checklist : @ProBlogger http://ow.ly/ubels
19. A Collaborative Novel Is Twice the Work, Not Half the Work | Jane Friedman http://ow.ly/ubkRN
20. What If Literary Agents Don’t Want Your Novel? http://ow.ly/ubugs
21. The Dr Seuss Guide To Twitter [INFOGRAPHIC] - AllTwitter http://ow.ly/ucm6U
22. The 9 Agonizing Stages Of Waiting For The Next Book In A Series To Come Out http://ow.ly/ucRcj

Happy writing and running, Kathy