The Career Novelist is like having your own personal literary agent on your bookshelf!
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
An oldie but goodie:
Donald Maass has a great talent in putting things into perspective. Getting an agent isn't the end of the road it is just the beginning and there are things to look out for and Mr. Maass has done an excellent job in outlining them for you. You should read this book!!! Sure he mentions the 1990's far too often which dates the book and some of his concerns are outdated but on a whole the piece tells volumes about what to expect. I think he should update this book and republish it.
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Agent Help to a Step Closer for the Serious Author:
This book was written in the 90s. It shares on what the future holds electronically for authors and now, in some areas we are here experiencing some in 2009. That being put aside, I wished I would have had this book when I began writing my first novel in the early 90s. I could have probably done a better job on it. I appreciated all the help and pointers that Mr. Maass gives to the reader. I felt like I was getting some genuine inside help and also I began to understand the importance of having a... more info
Enlightening and scary:
This books offers quite a healthy helping of disillusionment, but it's a great tool for aspiring writers to prepare themselves for the cold, heartless world of publishing. It offers great advice on how to 'do business' with agents, editors and publishers and how to accept defeats and rejections and solve problems. By explaining things no outsider could possibly know about the publishing business it gives the author an important advantage because he/she will know what to expect and how to react in a... more info
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