Perhaps a daft question...

by David Constantine
28th March 2017

Good morning. I have well and truly been bitten by the writing bug. I have now started a Thriller novel and currently have just under 10k words. My question is; How do you know when your ready to approach an editor or contact a publisher?

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0.00036% of writers can (should) even consider approaching an agent until they've finished rewriting their piece at least three times. And that's for poems and short stories. Novels need extra care.

Let's just take the tiny example of your question: 3 mistakes. Can you spot them?

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