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Pixie Dust & Publishing: Why Hard Work Isn’t Always Enough (and What To Do About It)

Pixie Dust & Publishing: Why Hard Work Isn’t Always Enough (and What To Do About It)

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Beth McMullen
Jun 05, 2025
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Let’s start with a brutal truth: getting a literary agent is hard.

And not just "parallel parking on a hill in a cranky old stick shift" hard. We’re talking:

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  • Revise-your-manuscript-forty-seven-times hard.

  • Hire-a-boo…

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