along with a contribution by myself and Antoine Malette, translations of some sections of Louis Riel’sMassinahican. To whet your appetite, I invite you to sample that translation and some remarks about it,here.
No one is going to fault you for not pulling a manuscript out of your hip pocket. At most, the agent may ask on the spot if you have a writing sample with you, but trust me, he will have a few pages in mind, not 300. If you’d like to be prepared for this eventuality, the ...
I’m going to assume that giant gasp I just heard was the prelude to a yes and move on. While your elevator speech is the verbal equivalent of the introduce-the-premise paragraph in your query letter (a good secondary use for an elevator speech, as I mentioned a few days back), the ...
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