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You would never stick your baby in an envelope and mail them away to some strange family. Still, every day hundreds of writers send their literary offspring to live with editors they've never met.Today, an editor explains the best way to show off your infant novel.
Welcome to the second installment of my interview with Sam Douglas, an associate editor at Picador. His firm has published critically acclaimed novels like Michael Cunningham's The Hours and memoirs like Running with Sissors by Augusten Burroughs.
This is my deceptively simple feature: Five Easy Questions. In the spirit of Jack Nicholson’s mad piano player, I run a serialized set of weekly interviews with writing pioneers—delivering some practical, unexpected advice about web publishing...
Jason Boog:
What are the biggest mistakes authors make when sending you book proposals? Any horror stories about bad authors?
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