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How to ruin your chances with an agent

Posted on February 12, 2021 by Susannah J. Bell

Who is the first agent you approach?  The best one, of course, whoever you think that may be.  In my mind, it’s the Curtis Brown agency.  So when the time came for me to start trotting my new novel around … Continue reading →

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What do you do when you realise you are a terrible writer

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Susannah J. Bell

Give up?  Start over?  Get a job stacking shelves in some shitty supermarket?  Turn into the dull, grey, dying-inside person you’re afraid of? I’ve spent all summer editing.  Both the third and fourth Fleet Quintet novels were already written but … Continue reading →

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Very very very very very Gomenzi

Posted on March 12, 2014 by Susannah J. Bell

I’ve started preparing FLESH FOR SALE as a .doc for Smashwords and find that every time I come round to editing/managing/preparing this novel, I find myself intrigued all over again by my blurb for V.GOMENZI.  It feels awfully self-indulgent to … Continue reading →

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I’ve just popped back for my gun and then I’m going to shoot the fucking bitch behind the post office counter

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Susannah J. Bell

Hate every motherfucker that’s in your way (MM)   All I wanted was something sticky.  A bit of Sellotape.  An address label.  Anything.  Usually the post office is quite obliging.  Often I remember to take my own Sellotape.  The problem … Continue reading →

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Sci Fi Agents in the UK

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Susannah J. Bell

With thanks to AJDalton, there are (and the W&A HB will confirm this) only fifteen sci fi agents in the UK.  They are: (Comments by Mr Dalton) i) Sheil Land (always reply), http://www.sheilland.co.uk ii) United Agents (rarely bother to reply), http://unitedagents.co.uk/ iii) … Continue reading →

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Rejection

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Susannah J. Bell

“I woke up today and wished for tomorrow I don’t want to be like anyone else I woke up today and wished for tomorrow I don’t want to even be myself”  (MM)   When you get your one millionth rejection … Continue reading →

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Selling your soul in a cover letter

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Susannah J. Bell

“We are the nobodies…wanna be somebodies…”  (MM)   When submitting your work to an agent (forget publishers for the moment;  they’re not buying), not only do you have to send them your precious work – or a few chapters of … Continue reading →

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Excuse me while I die with embarrassment

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Susannah J. Bell

“I’m sick of immortality”  (MM)   You know that “duh” emoticon that bangs its forehead with a fist, over and over and over…?  That’s me.  J.Jarrold is a sci fi agent.  I picked him because he’s a sci fi agent.  … Continue reading →

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