Mary Doran Cosgrove
Mary Doran Cosgrove asked April Henry:

How difficult is it to get your first book published?

April Henry First you find an agent. That's probably the hardest part of the process, because agents don't charge you any money until they make a sale (they take 15%) so they won't take a book on unless they feel fairly certain they can sell it. For a lot of folks, it's not their first or second book that gets published, but like their third.

So it's hard, but the people who stick with it and who work on improving their writing are the ones who ultimately get published.

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