Today we're delighted to be joined by debut novelist Aoife Fitzpatrick who explains how entering fiction competitions, and completing an MFA in Creative Writing, propelled her towards her first book deal ... Read the Post...
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5 Fantastic Novel Competitions That Could Land You an Agent… or even a Book Deal
Are you struggling to get the attention of literary agents? Maybe you've sent your novel out on submission only to be met with standard rejections or, worse still, radio silence. It can be hard not to get disheartened when this happens. Believe me, I've been there! But there's more than one way to grab the attention of agents and publishers. Several of the authors interviewed on this site got their first big break into publishing as ... Read the Post...
11 Exceptional Literary Agents Every Irish Writer Should Know About
As someone whose fiction has been represented by two different literary agents (the first ran her own small UK agency and the second is a director at a big London agency), I know just how important it is to have the right person out there championing your work. The mistake I made was assuming (oh, the naivety!) that once you were signed by an agent, that was it: you'd made it. Publication was only a hop, skip and a bottle of bubbly ... Read the Post...
