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n addition to reading countless books, queries, and manuscripts, many literary agents also read or browse literary journals to find new clients. After all, journal editors are often the first to discover and publish talented new writers. “The writing is selected and edited with love, and when I come upon a fresh new voice in the pages of a journal, I can feel that love, the

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