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Driven to disconnect

Good for you, Julia! We like a healthy dollop of determination and I admire your resolve to make the most of your experiences with the earlier submissions.

It is all too easy to fall into a pit of despair when one is knocked back, but horrible as they are at the time, rejections can form a very valuable learning curve and it will only help you towards future success to view yours in this way.

Too many would-be novelists brush aside the feedback they get – even when from highly-experienced professionals in the publishing industry – and disregard any advice on how to improve, and

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