It's All About the Work

 Q: What is the best advice you received from an agent, editor, publisher, writer, or florist? For bonus credit what was the worst? 

-from Susan

 

I’ve gotten some gems – good advice that has influenced my fiction writing career since it began in earnest in 2008. But the very best might sound simplistic: Never submit a manuscript to an agent or an editor unless it is the absolute best you can produce. 

 

It sounds easy or “duh,” but it’s not. Before you have an agent, you have a lot to prove, and it’...