How do you find an agent? Look them up in The Writer’s Market for Agents. Sometimes they are the Batman to your Alfred. You can go to websites for various publishing houses and see if they have contests or guidelines for submission. Many publishing houses have contests for first-time authors. When you read it with both love and disdain, you’re ready to revise. If it doesn’t, leave it in the drawer for another month. The first thing you should do is put it in a drawer for a month, then come back to it and read it again. Plus Twin.” The good thing is, you can get your new twin to serve detention for you. Yesterday afternoon, I began to grow a twin from my pancreas, and this required a rather sudden trip to the mall for clothes with an emerging twin pouch.

(Just a helpful hint: It’s always good to give me a long lead time and several polite prompts.) Of course, you can always try this: “Dear Teacher X, I am sorry that I did not do the required assignment. Hopefully, you will leave this message on a day when I am not buried under the Deadline That Ate My Brain. And if you have one burning question not answered here, like, “Where do you get your laser eye serviced?” you can always leave me a message here (Hint: It’s under “Contact”) message me on Facebook (Libba Bray…so don’t leave a message for Gayle Forman and expect me to respond) or on Twitter-or you can leave me a note on my blog. Hopefully, between the links, bio, silly questions, et al, there’s enough here to help with any assignment you might have. We all need guiding principles in our lives. It was nearly impossible to get me to do my own homework when I was in school so I can’t see starting over now with someone else’s.

The sweet far thing by libba bray