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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a numbers game. You have to get a LOT of rejections to get an agent and then a publisher. I have a friend who writes YA. She makes good money (six figure advances) but she wrote three whole books before she got one published — one that was basically practice, one she shopped around to get an agent that never found a publisher, and finally one that was her actual debut novel.[/quote] It typically takes about 10 years of rejections and writing and rewriting and multiple manuscripts. Sometimes shorter, sometimes longer. And the publishing industry (like so many others) is in crisis. There are virtually no midlist authors anymore. Very few real advances anymore, and with POD, books neither go out of print nor sell well since they aren't on bookshelves. [/quote]
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