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Can I contact your agent?
Yes. It's a free country. But if you are really asking if you can tell him I sent you, NO! That would indicate a personal recommendation. I just don't have the time to read and mentor all the people who ask me to. If I did that I wouldn't have time for my own writing. I'm sure you understand. And I can't recommend someone without reading their work.
Can you look at my work (book proposal, outline, chapters, the first 400 pages of my manuscript?
Again, I'm sorry but no. Please don't embarrass us both by asking. On rare occassions I do this, but only when I initate it. I want to help aspiring writers, but again I have to protect my own writing time. You can get the help you are looking for in writers groups and critique groups. These kinds of groups have been tremendously helpful to me in the past. You can also get your work looked at and receive advice at many writers conferences.
I'm looking for a ghostwriter. Can you help me write my book? I'll share the royalites with you. (Or I have a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer. You should write this book.)
Once again, no. I can only take on projects that I feel passionate about, and I have enough ideas of my own. I have never done ghostwriting.
Writers make a lot of money, right?
Some do. Most don't. Don't quit your day job!
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