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    Better than a rejection slip

     

     

    At WordFest this week, retired physician Dan Roberts read from his novel in progress, a medical thriller titled The VRSA Syndrome.

    Dan shared that when he sent out his manuscript, an agent responded with thirty pages of notes for re-working it.

    Thirty pages? I'm just happy if the form rejection letter sounds heartfelt.

     

     

     

     

     [First posted: July 10, 2015]

     

     

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