Fionnula Enright asked Jessica Day George:

when you wrote your first book were you able to get it published without paying to get it published and was it accepted by the first person you sent it to?

Jessica Day George I have never paid to have a book published. I have never paid for editing. I don't pay my agent, she takes 15% from my publisher when I get paid. I did not get my first book published, I got my seventh book published, but it was the first one that was for younger readers, not adults (Dragon Slippers). My adult books got rejected over 200 times (I scrapbooked the rejections so I know!), but Dragon Slippers was never rejected. I was at a writing conference and I pitched it to an editor and she bought it.

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