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Getting the Most Useful Feedback on Your Writing author tips writing advice Oct 14, 2025

Early drafts of anything — novel, book proposal, screenplay, children’s book —a re rarely ready for the prime-time of literary agents’ or editors’ in-boxes. For that reason, it’s advisable to get feedback on your work, to vet it and revise it before you send it out into the world for potential representation by a literary agent or potential sale to a book ...

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I'm Valerie Peterson

Author, Journalist, Book Publishing Pro & Educator, NYC resident

I spent decades in traditional book publishing houses and reporting about the industry for a digital media giant. In addition to being bookish, I'm TVish, mystery-ish, filmish, foodish & wine-y.

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