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Like every published author I harbored big ambitions for securing acres of media coverage to promote my first book. I had put in thousands of hours of writing and editing of my self-help
genre, Finding Mr Right: The Real Woman’s Guide to Landing That Man, and
preview copies had already been well received by a group agony aunts. With my background in public relations, I
was c

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During a recent conversation with a publisher friend, he commented somewhat wearily, that his job was the literary equivalent of Simon Cowell’s on The X Factor. Over the course of a year he receives manuscripts from thousands of author wannabes, vast amounts of rubbish, a smattering of raw talent and just a few born naturals – each dreaming of scooping a big publishing deal. The behind-the-scenes reality is that publishers are well-placed to take their pick from the crème de la crème of establis… Continue