For all you aspiring authors out there, I’d like to direct your attention to an outstanding web site strung with many pearls of writing and publishing wisdom. It’s called Kidlit.com and is powered by the fabulous Mary Kole, a writer and literary agent at Andrea Brown, one of the best agencies in the country.

While Mary’s interest and focus is on publications for younger readers, much of her advice is useful for anyone trying to get published. She answers questions from writers about how to submit their work to agents, how to deal with rejection, and why the wheels of the publishing industry turn in such creaky, funky ways. She did a series of posts a couple of months back about revision (so, so important) and is always stressing the importance of patience, a must-have trait for anyone dealing with the publishing world. It takes patience to craft and complete a great story, even more patience to polish it umpteen million times, and yet more patience to wait and see if agents and editors are interested. And if they are (oh happy day!), there will be yet more waiting to see your labor of love hit the shelves.

Axl Rose was totally right about that patience thing.

I regularly get questions from people about how to get a book published, and I’ve started directing everyone to this site. I’ve learned a ton from Mary, and if you’re interested in getting published, you will, too.

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