Just a quickie to say I’ve put a link in on the left to Richard Charkin’s Blog. Who is Richard Charkin you might ask? Well he happens to be the Chief Executive of Macmillan Publishers and has a pretty entertaining blog here.
Particularly funny is the letter from one aspiring writer who submitted a MSS to Macmillan New Writing.
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