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How a book deal works
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How a book deal works

October 9, 2017October 29, 2017 phoebemorganauthor16 Comments

So I ran a Twitter poll the other day asking people what topic would be the most useful for me to write about, as I really want to try to make this little blog as useful as possible. When I was trying to get published, I spent HOURS trawling the internet for information about the… Continue reading How a book deal works

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