I started writing in January.

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2. Good luck!

I hope you land an agent and don't have to self publish. I know a lot of people think that's the way to go & I wouldn't rule it out completely if I had a finished manuscript. But the self published novels I've read, could have benefited from a professional editor.

I know a self-published author who runs his words through his mother first, who is an avid reader. Then a plot editor and finally, a line editor, and still the comments on his book are that he should have gotten an editor.