Agents, Editors and Writing
by Jay Dubya 
So, you just wrote your first science fiction novel. Your friend read it and
told you that you were the next Ray Bradbury or Gene Roddenberry. Your fertile
mind fantasizes your name up there on a Borders' wall poster right next to
images of Isaac Asimov and Jules Verne. Before going off the deep end and
equating your excellent achievement with Hemingway and Steinbeck, give your ego
a vital stiff reality check.
Few of us mortals are literary Mozarts that can plop down in front of a computer
screen and author a perfect manuscript the first time around. Let's get one
thing straight right now. You wrote a manuscript and not a book. After an author
takes the time and care to read, analyze, evaluate, edit and rewrite the
manuscript at least five times, the work has finally evolved into a publishable
book manuscript.
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