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We have your details and we will contact you if an agent or publisher would like to know more about your manuscript. But while you wait for that call, Marketplace has teamed up with some experts in the business to produce a page of priceless information about how you can develop your writing career. Here you will find practical advice about everything to do with writing, from getting the correct working environment to the right way to present your work to a publisher. There are also contributions from authors talking about how they overcame frustration and disappointment to achieve writing success.

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Preethi Nair is an author, but so much more. Watch Preethi explain how she overcame having no publisher or agent, and still got her first book Gypsy Masala in bookshops everywhere! Watch Preethi introduce her follow up novel 100 Shades of White.

Joanna Trollope shares her experiences of writing success. Watch Joanna talk about her book Second Honeymoon by clicking here. You can also join Joanna in the Authors' Lounge and watch her talk about her career by clicking here.

Alison Baverstock is a former publisher, author, publishing industry consultant, a teacher of marketing and publishing studies, and advisor to new writers. Need we say more? Watch Alison introduce her books Is There a Book In You? and How To Market Your Book. Both these books contain advice you can't afford to ignore.