Goodreads asked Samuel W. Gailey:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Samuel W. Gailey You have to love what you do. You have to be willing to sacrifice and be patient. It took me almost 2 years to get an agent, but only one month to find a publisher (a few bid on the book, but I went with Blue Rider Press, a Penguin imprint). I almost gave up at one point but am now glad I did not. Watch the documentary The Rough Side of Larry Brown. He's my favorite writer, yet he had over 100 rejections.

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