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Spike89

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7. Nonfiction often requires an excited author

Reply to nadinbrzezinski (Original post)

Fri Jan 6, 2012, 05:58 PM

Jan 2012

I'm the acquisitions editor for a medium-sized non-fiction publisher and it isn't just that excited authors are so much easier to work with, but almost always their enthusiasm comes through even in topics that are quite dry on the surface.
I always remind myself that there is hardly any topic that isn't important and even exciting to at least a few people.

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