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"Over the past few years I've been lucky enough not to only finish NaNoWriMo but also turn TWO of them into publishable AND published novels. (One's out with Samhain Publishing and part of a series and the second is being released in January by Carina Press, the digital division of Harlequin.)\r\n\r\nBut it's a helluva slog from that first wailing babe you have on December 1st to the beast you send off to publishers.\r\n\r\nI encouarge people to do NaNo but NOT to think about sending their books off until well into the next year, at least six months after the first draft. Polish, polish, cut and edit that baby to death because just because you wrote 50K words doesn't mean that 50K words are good enough to be published. \r\n\r\nBut it's a great place to start.\r\n\r\n:)"
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