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Author: Cat Clarke

Cat Clarke is the award-winning, best-selling author of several YA novels, including Entangled, Undone, We Are Young and Girlhood (a 2017 Zoella Book Club pick). She also writes middle-grade novels (The Pants Project) and children’s non-fiction.

Five tips for staying sane while querying agents

OK, it may not be up there with divorce, moving house or trying to avoid Game of Thrones spoilers on Twitter, but having your manuscript out there in the big, bad world being judged by big, bad agents* is pretty darn stressful. Here are our top tips for staying sane when you’re looking for an agent.

Posted on April 10, 2014July 18, 2019 by Cat Clarke

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