Anyone who has ever tried to get his/her work in print knows how tough (virtually impossible?) it is to do.  Publishers and agents are inundated with dozens/hundreds of submissions every month; how can they possibly separate the wheat from the chaff? I’ve heard many times that a manuscript must be truly exceptional to be considered.  That raises the question for me, how many first books fit that description?  Often the reason an author’s second book is better than the first is because the author has had the chance to go through the editing process.  Without the first book you as an author may never get the second book chance. Granted, you can always hire an editor to work through the book with […]