Elizabeth Lyvers's

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Secrets of a Contented Heart

I finished a new novel in May and the book spent the summer with an editor getting spruced. Since September I’ve been in the dreaded query process where I pitch the premise and some sample pages to dozens of literary agents in hopes of being “discovered” and getting a big publisher. It’s soul-wearying. Painstaking. A lot like sitting at a slot machine in a casino, watching your money dwindle with every game, telling yourself to give up, but unable to...