If you can't figure out how to make the beginning of your book compelling, you're probably not writing a compelling book.

Before I wrote my first novel, 'The Expats,' I spent nearly two decades at various arms of publishing houses such as Random House, Workman, and HarperCollins, mostly as an acquisitions editor. But a more accurate title for that job might be rejection editor: while I acquired maybe a dozen projects per year, I'd reject hundreds upon hundreds.

Although no one loves a typo, it's close to impossible to eradicate every single little mistake in a manuscript.

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