Emily Smith asked Sally Green:

How long you needed to get right agent? did you get a lot of rejections?

Sally Green Hi,

I sent the first 50 pages of my first manuscript to 8 agents and got:- 4 rejections, 3 didn't reply at all ( a ruder rejection) and 1 asked to see the full manuscript and then rejected it.
Only the 1 person (Claire) who saw the full manuscript gave me a tiny bit of feedback, the others gave me none.

I was a bit downhearted about this but not very much. I continued to work hard and develop my writing. I knew I was improving. I knew I could do better. I'm now glad my first manuscript was rejected as if it hadn't been I'd never have written HALF BAD.

Claire is now my agent - I sent her a completely rewritten manuscript, called it Half Bad and she signed me up immediately.

Rejection is tough but it doesn't mean that you won't get accepted one day. And equally being published now doesn't mean that I've got a guaranteed publishing deal. I have to continue to write to the best of my ability but there is no guarantee that my next book after the trilogy will be published.

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