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The Girls' Guide to Losing Your L Plates - how to pass your driving test published by Simon and Schuster. I'm a journalist (and long-term bagger, dating back to 2003!) and I really struggled to pass my own test so thought, ok - there's a self-help book for everything else on the market (finding a man, losing weight etc - why not driving?) I put together first three chapters, synopsis and (very important for non-fiction, I think, a selling outline (giving facts and figures about how many learner drivers there are every year - think would be a good idea for any special interest, non-fiction book (ie numbers of people who have asthma, keep gerbils or whatever - also,why you're the right person to write the book (eg you're vice-president of the UK gerbil-keepeers association, you've had asthma all your life but manage it really well, etc, etc...) - and sent it out to about five agents, got some standard rejections some 'encouraging rejections' and one acceptance! Agent the sent it out to 12 publishers and I got a deal with Simon and Schuster . For aspiring authors, would really reccommend the following links Danuta Kean - Freelance Journalist http://www.danutakean.com - excellent publishing blog which really tells it how it is re money, promotions etc From Pitch to Publication- excellent book by Carole Blake (very respected agent). On work on my second book now, and have also got onto literature festival circuit and teaching people about getting published (at Ilkley Lit Festival, Bristol Uni etc) Good luck to everyone!

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