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Congratulations, Claire. That's such wonderful news. You so deserve this. :flexed-biceps::bottle-with-popping-cork::clinking-glasses:

New blog post by Claire Gallagher Working with a Literary Agent The Querying In a previous post I mentioned that I was back in the query trenches. To recap, my earlier, experimental novel didn’t sell and I decided it was time for a fresh...

@Jake E I hear you, so much, your thoughts sound like my own 7/8 years ago. It's a painful part of the bell curve writers go through. Back then, I feel I was chasing 'getting something out there.' When I took a chill pill (I literally take...

The drummer in Black Sabath?

My guess: you live nextdoor to a taxidermist. Or some sort of trophy hunter. Weirdly, I recently met some woman who collects taxidermited (is that the verb for taxidermy?) animal heads. Them things some twits mount on wooden plaques. Needless to...

Legal or not, I wouldn't quote them without their permission. You might sub to them in the future with a different book and if they hate that you quoted them ... I suspect since they wrote the comment, it's 'under their copyright'. But I don't...

So, last year I entered a short story competition with a first prize of a week at the Swanwick Writers Summer School and was absolutely delighted when I won. This year I entered the children's story section of the competition and guess what. Whoo...

Always happy to road test stuff.