Any advice on how to get published?
You could fill a bookshelf–and probably more–with books that attempt to answer this question. The best advice I can give? Write, write, write! And read–a lot. Polish your prose. Understand the writer’s tools. Read “how to” books on writing. Because in the end, what’s going to get you noticed and published is good writing. Period. Unless of course, your uncle is a Senior Editor at Random House. Once you have something that is the best you can create and all your friends have read it and say it’s better than the last book they read from a bookstore, you can send it to publishers or agents. The key word at this point, is persistence. You will get rejected. Most of the time you will never be told why. But send it out again. And again. Collect rejection letters and display them like trophies. Discouragement will come. You’ll want to quit. You’ll tell yourself you’re wasting your time, that you have no talent. But that’s the time to send it out again. I was at this point many times with T
