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How Not to Write a Novel

Every week, agents and publishers in this country receive hundreds of manuscripts from wouldbe authors. Of these, fewer than one per cent will make it into print. David Armstrong was one of the one percenters, his first crime novel plucked from the slush pile at a major publisher and published to acclaim. So far, so good. But it rapidly became clear to Armstrong that being a published novelist is not always as glamorous as it seems from the outside. There are the depressing, illattended readings, the bitchy writers' conventions, the bookshops who have never heard of you and don't stock your bo.

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