Advice from a UK Literary Agent on Fusion View.

Yang-May Ooi has finally uploaded her podcast interview with UK Lit Agent, Lucy Luck, on her Fusion View blog:

As part of my series on Getting Published, I invited writers from Malaysia and the UK to submit questions to a UK literary agent in an exclusive interactive project on my blog Fusion View, an East/ West blog on writing, culture and the arts.

We got a great response and armed with some probing and astute questions, I spoke to UK Literary Agent Lucy Luck about the process of submitting your manuscript for publication. She gives her advice and answers questions how a literary agent can help an author, what to put in your covering letter, what’s hot in the publishing world right now and much more.

Lucy also explains how you can submit your manuscript to her agency - if you do submit, please mention Fusion View.

I am really grateful to Yang-May for providing us this opportunity to ask questions from a real Lit Agent. A lot of good questions are asked and answered satisfyingly (Yang-May's a very good podcaster host!), with questions coming from all over the world, among them John Ling and Lydia Teh. But I'm happiest with my question being answered. Look for it very near the end of the interview.

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Lesson: Commemorative Covers are Lame.

Well, I got the first day cover that commemorates the 35th anniversary of the establishment diplomatic relations between China and Malaysia that I mentioned a couple of posts ago. Except that it's not a first day cover, it's a commemorative cover, which is a slightly different beast. I guess I should read the news article properly next time! The difference between the two is that first day covers are specially-designed envelopes stuck on with specially-designed stamps, and marked with a specially-designed postmark. A commemorative cover is a specially-designed envelope... and that's it. All in all, it's an unremarkable affair, especially if you're used to well-designed first day covers (not that Malaysian first day covers are well-designed... but I digress). Oh sure, a commemorative cover has a stamp printed right on to it but that's just like an overglorified aerogramme. Lame. On the whole, what a disappointment. I haven't been collecting first day cover

HOWTO: Get Rid of Silverfish

The bane of every book collecting person: the Silverfish. DUN DUN DUNNNNN!!! How to get rid of them? If one book has been infected, place it inside an air-tight plastic bag along with some silica gel desiccant. The silica gel is important to get rid of moisture, because you will now place the sealed plastic bag with the book in it inside the freezer. Leave it in there for a couple of days so that those bugs catch their death of cold. If you're feeling particularly paranoid, (like I usually am) feel free to leave the plastic bag in there for a week. If they're not dead, then you might likely have an infestation of zombie silverfish , which is out of the scope of this blogpost. But what if a whole colony of silverfish decided to invade your whole bookcase? Then you have to make sure you're ready for war. Place a generous amount of silica gel (or if you can find it, diatomaceous earth) behind your books at the back of the shelves so that moisture levels remain low.

Send me to Clarion West! - My crowdfunding effort.

I just launched my crowdfunding page to help fund my Clarion West trip on GoGetFunding and I am nervous as heck. Anyway here's a link . Any help or support much appreciated even if it's just to share the link around. Thank you so much!

Ted Mahsun

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