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The Importance of Volunteering and Dealing with Literary Rejection
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The speaker shares their experience of meeting a successful author by volunteering and being introduced to different agents. Despite some agents rejecting their book for not being commercial enough, the speaker highlights the importance of persistence in literary rejections.
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