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Today's literary links:

From Slushpile, a link to What To Do When Your Book Is Getting Zero Publicity.

Galleycat reports, from the NY Post, that James Frey's book contract has been cancelled, as sales of A Million Little Pieces of Bullshit passed three million. I don't suppose that counts copies returned by readers who claimed they were hoodwinked. I saw a pony-tailed blonde straight girl reading a copy in a Starbuck's on Union St. the other day -- a fake blonde reading a fake memoir while drinking crappy coffee. But you expect that kind of thing on Union St., which is sort of like L.A. with jackets.

Miss Snark with good advice, as usual:

I'd pitch an agent over an editor any day of the week. First, if you have an agent, you won't need to know what an editor wants; your agent will know. An agent gets you access to editors, one editor does not get you access to an agent.

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