Writers, have faith

Rachel Kramer Bussel continues her Mediabistro gig today with an interview with MacAdam/Cage's Kate Nitze, who edited Michelle Tea's just-released book Rose of No Man's Land. Nitze sounds very chipper, says she really wants new voices, and "if we absolutely love a book and want to publish it, in the end it doesn't matter if it is an author's first or 10th book." So that's good news for would-be authors. The bad news is that she "only occasionally" reads unagented submissions, so get yourself an agent first. (If you're clueless about the process, you could do no better than to read Miss Snark's blog. Start with the archives and read forward. It'll only take you a couple weeks to read it all, and when you finish, you'll be fully educated with good advice. It's better than sending out bad, fruitless query letters.)

By the way, that is not Savannah Knoop on the cover of Tea's book, no matter how much it looks like him.

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