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Re: Fiction Advice 16: Publishers & Agents

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From: sometimes a Wombat
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 17:42
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Crawford_Kilian@mindlink.bc.ca (Crawford Kilian) writes:
> 
> If you've hammered out a credible but
> surprising plot about interesting people in a hell of a jam, and you're
> showing them in action instead of telling us what they're like, and your
> grammar, spelling and punctuation are first-rate--you're already ahead of 80
> per cent of your competition.

More like 95% if slush stories are to be believed.

	Larry "Run away screaming" Hammer
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