It’s not as hard to get an agent and sell a book as most people think. Then once you’ve delivered one, even if it didn’t do so well, the publisher will usually green light another book. And so on. Pat is so desperate that he’s willing to work on spec, which helps.
Calling it now: He’ll find no publisher for his Tiny Tim tome and will release it as a Kindle-only essay or something else embarrassing. He’ll have to sort something out or make up a face-saving lie. It’s not going to get picked up, let alone be a smashing success.
If Pat were a real author, he could sell Tiny Tim based on a proposal and two or three sample chapters. But he’s not, so he can’t.
What
can he do? Be very fat indeed.
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