Final Proof

It is easy to be naive when you start trying to get your book noticed, according to long-time subscriber, Debbie Edwards, Sutton.

She completed her first novel Aggie Lichen: Pilp Collector almost two years ago and took the ‘usual track’ of approaching agents, then sat back expectantly: ‘I knew they would all want my novel,’ she says.

Disappointingly, she received ‘rejection after rejection’ so decided to go directly to the publishers instead: ‘After all, they were much more important and knowledgeable, weren’t they?’

When the large brown stamped-addressed envelopes bounced back through her letterbox she had another re-think. ‘Perhaps a literary agency had better look at it – just in case I’d been going wrong somewhere.’