Legend has it that, when Margaret Mitchell contacted a publisher about Gone With the Wind, she hauled two stacks of manuscript pages as tall as she was into the publisher's hotel room and said, "Here it is." Part of the manuscript was typed, part was handwritten, some pages were drenched in spilled coffee, and some chapters were included in multiple versions.
Today, she'd be asked to haul it all home, boil it down to a two-page query letter, and get an agent.
Leigh Michaels, On Writing Romance, 2007
Today, she'd be asked to haul it all home, boil it down to a two-page query letter, and get an agent.
Leigh Michaels, On Writing Romance, 2007
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