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Book Keeping: Landing a Big Deal

Armed with an MFA from Ohio State and a partial manuscript for her first novel, this author describes how she landed an agent and scored nearly six figures

September 5, 2006

EDITOR'S NOTE: Welcome to our second installment of Book Keeping, a monthly feature for AG members focusing on the business of how authors, editors, and publishers bring book projects to life. In this month's installment, author Shari Goldhagen details how getting short stories into literary magazines and toiling over her manuscript at writers' colonies helped her secure an agent and sell her first novel, about the fraught relationship between two brothers, spanning several decades. Short stories may represent risk as far as book publishers are concerned. But for writers, publishing short fiction in literary magazines can lead ...

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