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	<title>Comments for Simon Trewin</title>
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	<description>Literary Agent</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Emily Breen</title>
		<link>http://simontrewin.com/guestbook/#comment-787</link>
		<dc:creator>Emily Breen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Following some sound advice from both you &#38; Courttia at the 'evening with' in Farringdon last week, I have been trying my best to have the courage to let my words speak for themselves without including the "ta da!" ending in every synopsis.  A week away from finishing the novel &#38; we shall see how far a little chutzpah takes me, but thank you. Emily.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Following some sound advice from both you &amp; Courttia at the &#8216;evening with&#8217; in Farringdon last week, I have been trying my best to have the courage to let my words speak for themselves without including the &#8220;ta da!&#8221; ending in every synopsis.  A week away from finishing the novel &amp; we shall see how far a little chutzpah takes me, but thank you. Emily.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Duncan</title>
		<link>http://simontrewin.com/guestbook/#comment-784</link>
		<dc:creator>Duncan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Simon,
thanks for all the great (free) advice. It's a great website, and it's great to hear your advice and tips for budding writers. I hope, one day, to send you something and get some feedback.
Laters,</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Simon,<br />
thanks for all the great (free) advice. It&#8217;s a great website, and it&#8217;s great to hear your advice and tips for budding writers. I hope, one day, to send you something and get some feedback.<br />
Laters,</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Louisa</title>
		<link>http://simontrewin.com/guestbook/#comment-783</link>
		<dc:creator>Louisa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for all the advice on publishing ive managed to scrape up from you. I never really understood how confusing the whole process is, i just looked out of curiousity and found my head spinning, it will be a while before I manage to finish my novel but looking on these sites gets me all pumped up to work harder! 
I'm only sixteen but i am quite good at writing fiction and one of my life goals is to get a book published, what i'm doing at the moment is going to be a really long project but i'm really enjoying myself. But when i'm done i know i'm going to send it your way! Hopefully my work will be salvagable, so thankyou for your site and hopefully if I get my novel finished you will get to read it. Well i want you too, i'm not really at all sure over your enthusiasm.
Sorry for the lenthy note, and thanx again for the clear instuction.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for all the advice on publishing ive managed to scrape up from you. I never really understood how confusing the whole process is, i just looked out of curiousity and found my head spinning, it will be a while before I manage to finish my novel but looking on these sites gets me all pumped up to work harder!<br />
I&#8217;m only sixteen but i am quite good at writing fiction and one of my life goals is to get a book published, what i&#8217;m doing at the moment is going to be a really long project but i&#8217;m really enjoying myself. But when i&#8217;m done i know i&#8217;m going to send it your way! Hopefully my work will be salvagable, so thankyou for your site and hopefully if I get my novel finished you will get to read it. Well i want you too, i&#8217;m not really at all sure over your enthusiasm.<br />
Sorry for the lenthy note, and thanx again for the clear instuction.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Des Mason</title>
		<link>http://simontrewin.com/guestbook/#comment-729</link>
		<dc:creator>Des Mason</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just finished reading "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas". A strange and moving book. Noted the author's mention of his agent in the thanks and acknowledgements and thought Simon Trew might be the agent I have been looking for to publish my novel "The Scrimshaw". The first three chapters will be winging their way to you shortly. I certainly appreciate your encouraging invitation to new writers, as opposed to the snooty multitudes who will not accept unsolicited manuscripts or approaches from unpublished novelists.

Des Mason</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just finished reading &#8220;The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas&#8221;. A strange and moving book. Noted the author&#8217;s mention of his agent in the thanks and acknowledgements and thought Simon Trew might be the agent I have been looking for to publish my novel &#8220;The Scrimshaw&#8221;. The first three chapters will be winging their way to you shortly. I certainly appreciate your encouraging invitation to new writers, as opposed to the snooty multitudes who will not accept unsolicited manuscripts or approaches from unpublished novelists.</p>
<p>Des Mason</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Nik Morton</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nik Morton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Simon, Congratulations on making the break! Since you wrote a complimentary rejection letter a while back, I thought you might be interested to know that my rewritten book about the cop who became a nun has been published - Pain Wears No Mask - and it has a few very favourable reviews on Amazon.co.uk. This success is also attributable to your comments - the character just wouldn't go away. A sequel (or two) is planned. Best wishes, Nik Morton</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Simon, Congratulations on making the break! Since you wrote a complimentary rejection letter a while back, I thought you might be interested to know that my rewritten book about the cop who became a nun has been published - Pain Wears No Mask - and it has a few very favourable reviews on Amazon.co.uk. This success is also attributable to your comments - the character just wouldn&#8217;t go away. A sequel (or two) is planned. Best wishes, Nik Morton</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Barbara</title>
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		<dc:creator>Barbara</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 15:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No one has said hello for a while so I thought I would.
Hello and bye 
Barbara</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No one has said hello for a while so I thought I would.<br />
Hello and bye<br />
Barbara</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Kym Jade</title>
		<link>http://simontrewin.com/guestbook/#comment-671</link>
		<dc:creator>Kym Jade</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 04:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hello I found your website from a Bloomsbury site. Loved seeing all the photos on the front page. I will be submitting to you after looking at your requirements. Hope to get some encouragement.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello I found your website from a Bloomsbury site. Loved seeing all the photos on the front page. I will be submitting to you after looking at your requirements. Hope to get some encouragement.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Michael Kerins</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael Kerins</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 09:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Simon - 

Thanks so much for the openess with which I can approach you - I sent some texts off and I do hope that you enjoy reading them, all the best from a rather chilly and damp but nonetheless Bonnie, Scotland. Michael Kerins - Storyteller Glasgow</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Simon - </p>
<p>Thanks so much for the openess with which I can approach you - I sent some texts off and I do hope that you enjoy reading them, all the best from a rather chilly and damp but nonetheless Bonnie, Scotland. Michael Kerins - Storyteller Glasgow</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by LJ</title>
		<link>http://simontrewin.com/guestbook/#comment-636</link>
		<dc:creator>LJ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Strewin! Thanks for the write up. You are a star (and a really good muse).
Keep up the good works,
LJ</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Strewin! Thanks for the write up. You are a star (and a really good muse).<br />
Keep up the good works,<br />
LJ</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Eleri</title>
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		<dc:creator>Eleri</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Success is inevitable when you believe that anything is possible.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Success is inevitable when you believe that anything is possible.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Ken Buckley</title>
		<link>http://simontrewin.com/guestbook/#comment-605</link>
		<dc:creator>Ken Buckley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nine years ago I wrote it as a short story. Made it into a film script. I called agents.They were loaded. I wrote them. No reply. I submitted it to studios, to stars, producers, contests. It came back - unopened.
 A British producer's reader offered to read it. Liked it. But had too much on the back burner. Oh, "and it was a little episodic."
 Some months ago it became a novel. Each day, it grows, or, shrinks in the finishing process.
 It's an old story. Everything that happened 64 years ago in the back alleys of the East End of London, still seems exciting, depressing, uplifting, sad.
 Scanning the Web for an agent, calling or writing one, is a test in itself. 
 You have what you think is a pretty damned good yarn. But trying to nab an agent is like fishing. You bait, you cast, and cast again. Then wait.You try a different locale. A different bait, a different spin(ner).
  After a lifetime of writing and pushing news copy, beating deadlines, scripting tv and non- Academy films - shooting them too,finding an agent is more like scaling a flat wall.
  How others managed to get their foot over the doorstep continues to amaze me.
  But, this is the first web site I've seen by an agent, actually encouraging submissions.
  Honest!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nine years ago I wrote it as a short story. Made it into a film script. I called agents.They were loaded. I wrote them. No reply. I submitted it to studios, to stars, producers, contests. It came back - unopened.<br />
 A British producer&#8217;s reader offered to read it. Liked it. But had too much on the back burner. Oh, &#8220;and it was a little episodic.&#8221;<br />
 Some months ago it became a novel. Each day, it grows, or, shrinks in the finishing process.<br />
 It&#8217;s an old story. Everything that happened 64 years ago in the back alleys of the East End of London, still seems exciting, depressing, uplifting, sad.<br />
 Scanning the Web for an agent, calling or writing one, is a test in itself.<br />
 You have what you think is a pretty damned good yarn. But trying to nab an agent is like fishing. You bait, you cast, and cast again. Then wait.You try a different locale. A different bait, a different spin(ner).<br />
  After a lifetime of writing and pushing news copy, beating deadlines, scripting tv and non- Academy films - shooting them too,finding an agent is more like scaling a flat wall.<br />
  How others managed to get their foot over the doorstep continues to amaze me.<br />
  But, this is the first web site I&#8217;ve seen by an agent, actually encouraging submissions.<br />
  Honest!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Nicky Lee (pen name)</title>
		<link>http://simontrewin.com/guestbook/#comment-585</link>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Lee (pen name)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Came across your site via bloomsbury.com

I was so impressed I decided to submit my work. Here's hoping you will be just as impressed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Came across your site via bloomsbury.com</p>
<p>I was so impressed I decided to submit my work. Here&#8217;s hoping you will be just as impressed.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by stuart</title>
		<link>http://simontrewin.com/guestbook/#comment-458</link>
		<dc:creator>stuart</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>looking at the site to check out regarding submitting my manuscript for my book about an issue which i am passionate about as my book through local rehabilitation centers has researched to work the book is entitled 'the Little Book of recovery' will be sending it in to Simon with proposal letter after the bank holiday 

thank you</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>looking at the site to check out regarding submitting my manuscript for my book about an issue which i am passionate about as my book through local rehabilitation centers has researched to work the book is entitled &#8216;the Little Book of recovery&#8217; will be sending it in to Simon with proposal letter after the bank holiday </p>
<p>thank you</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Veta D</title>
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		<dc:creator>Veta D</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Many thanx for all the advice!!</description>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Yolanda</title>
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		<dc:creator>Yolanda</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Mr. Trewin,

I like your site -- I may yet muster the courage and send you my manuscript.

Cheers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Mr. Trewin,</p>
<p>I like your site &#8212; I may yet muster the courage and send you my manuscript.</p>
<p>Cheers.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Phelix</title>
		<link>http://simontrewin.com/guestbook/#comment-359</link>
		<dc:creator>Phelix</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Simon,

In October 2005 you rejected my story called MMXL with a scribbled note telling me "Don't give up - you're very good indeed" - so I didn't give up. I have now re-written and finished that story (76,000 words)and called it something else. I may even send it to you - but first I'm sending you an adventure thriller set in Kenya (topical!).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Simon,</p>
<p>In October 2005 you rejected my story called MMXL with a scribbled note telling me &#8220;Don&#8217;t give up - you&#8217;re very good indeed&#8221; - so I didn&#8217;t give up. I have now re-written and finished that story (76,000 words)and called it something else. I may even send it to you - but first I&#8217;m sending you an adventure thriller set in Kenya (topical!).</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Y.K. Amar</title>
		<link>http://simontrewin.com/guestbook/#comment-336</link>
		<dc:creator>Y.K. Amar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hello Simon the Soother - Yes, it is true. Your advises are truly 'soothers' to the burning desire of un-published authors for getting their work published, somehow. The labour and time (years to be exact) which an author  consumes in writing a novel propels the author to take an action which you have rightly dissuaded him to do. It, naturally is a step which the author frustatingly takes(after not getting a response from publishers).
Thanks for the guidelines, which I am sure will help all the authors who are in such a situation - like me. I would appreciate the use of your expertise for my work too. 
You would hear from me soon. Thanks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello Simon the Soother - Yes, it is true. Your advises are truly &#8217;soothers&#8217; to the burning desire of un-published authors for getting their work published, somehow. The labour and time (years to be exact) which an author  consumes in writing a novel propels the author to take an action which you have rightly dissuaded him to do. It, naturally is a step which the author frustatingly takes(after not getting a response from publishers).<br />
Thanks for the guidelines, which I am sure will help all the authors who are in such a situation - like me. I would appreciate the use of your expertise for my work too.<br />
You would hear from me soon. Thanks.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by THABI</title>
		<link>http://simontrewin.com/guestbook/#comment-285</link>
		<dc:creator>THABI</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good to know you have moved on.I read your articles and once submitted a sample to you which you gracefully turned down(it was bad!) but you were very encouraging.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good to know you have moved on.I read your articles and once submitted a sample to you which you gracefully turned down(it was bad!) but you were very encouraging.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Shirley</title>
		<link>http://simontrewin.com/guestbook/#comment-254</link>
		<dc:creator>Shirley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Congratulations on your website – it reads like a breath of fresh air!   You - and United Agents - convey excitement and enthusiasm, disappointingly lacking elsewhere.  It’s actually difficult to find an agent/agency that, if it doesn’t discourage, actively attracts and encourages manuscript submission. Thank you Simon.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Congratulations on your website – it reads like a breath of fresh air!   You - and United Agents - convey excitement and enthusiasm, disappointingly lacking elsewhere.  It’s actually difficult to find an agent/agency that, if it doesn’t discourage, actively attracts and encourages manuscript submission. Thank you Simon.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Tracey Lee Hoy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tracey Lee Hoy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Came here on a breeze straight from reading your article on Bloomsbury. People like you making life easier for poor lost souls like us writers seriously ought to be sainted. So thank you for your support!
Like all the other hopefuls, I'm preparing a submission for your advice. Hyvästi.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Came here on a breeze straight from reading your article on Bloomsbury. People like you making life easier for poor lost souls like us writers seriously ought to be sainted. So thank you for your support!<br />
Like all the other hopefuls, I&#8217;m preparing a submission for your advice. Hyvästi.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Lisa Norman</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lisa Norman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Simon,
I thought I would email and say how much I enjoyed reading your comments on my book review from the Nottingham Evening Post EG guide. As an ambitious young writer, all comments are gratefully received. I hope my review allows for many book sales for you from intrigued readers!

Kind regards,
Lisa Norman

P.S. Don't forget me if I need my first book publishing. x</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Simon,<br />
I thought I would email and say how much I enjoyed reading your comments on my book review from the Nottingham Evening Post EG guide. As an ambitious young writer, all comments are gratefully received. I hope my review allows for many book sales for you from intrigued readers!</p>
<p>Kind regards,<br />
Lisa Norman</p>
<p>P.S. Don&#8217;t forget me if I need my first book publishing. x</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Cat Randle</title>
		<link>http://simontrewin.com/guestbook/#comment-193</link>
		<dc:creator>Cat Randle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I found your website while researching The Winchester Writers Festival. I enjoyed your comments about your negative review for Shopping While Drunk. Now we can read on and made up our own minds. Of course there is the chance we will go and find your book to see what the fuss is about. Either way its nice to be able to make up our own minds. I like being treated like an adult not a unit to be sold books to. Cheers Simon.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I found your website while researching The Winchester Writers Festival. I enjoyed your comments about your negative review for Shopping While Drunk. Now we can read on and made up our own minds. Of course there is the chance we will go and find your book to see what the fuss is about. Either way its nice to be able to make up our own minds. I like being treated like an adult not a unit to be sold books to. Cheers Simon.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Mary</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hello Simon,
Interesting website with lots of sound advice. Thanks. It does us good to hear of success stories even if the novel I have written never sees the light of day! When I see how many people are 'at it' and how difficult it is get lucky it kinda puts me off sending it anywhere. I enjoyed writing it though, and have even begun another one.  Cheers x</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello Simon,<br />
Interesting website with lots of sound advice. Thanks. It does us good to hear of success stories even if the novel I have written never sees the light of day! When I see how many people are &#8216;at it&#8217; and how difficult it is get lucky it kinda puts me off sending it anywhere. I enjoyed writing it though, and have even begun another one.  Cheers x</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Lucy Cavendish</title>
		<link>http://simontrewin.com/guestbook/#comment-185</link>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Cavendish</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wanted just to thank you for writing about Kate Jones. She was my agent and my dear friend and she was, without doubt, the most wonderful person. She was kind, warm and funny and I will miss her desperately.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wanted just to thank you for writing about Kate Jones. She was my agent and my dear friend and she was, without doubt, the most wonderful person. She was kind, warm and funny and I will miss her desperately.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Carlie Lee</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carlie Lee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hello Simon,
I think you're rather fab,
Carlie

(Married. Kids. Large arse... can write a bit though.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello Simon,<br />
I think you&#8217;re rather fab,<br />
Carlie</p>
<p>(Married. Kids. Large arse&#8230; can write a bit though.)</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Zuhaib</title>
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		<dc:creator>Zuhaib</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Simon,

Thanks for all your advice on how to present manuscripts. im glad I sent mine to you. Thanks again. Take care :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Simon,</p>
<p>Thanks for all your advice on how to present manuscripts. im glad I sent mine to you. Thanks again. Take care <img src='http://simontrewin.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /></p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Rose</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rose</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Simon,
An interesting biography and you look like an out and out rogue.  You'll go a long way.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Simon,<br />
An interesting biography and you look like an out and out rogue.  You&#8217;ll go a long way.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Dan Edlin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dan Edlin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have emailed someone about it. Thanks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have emailed someone about it. Thanks.</p>
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		<title>Comment on OOPS I READ IT AGAIN&#8230;. by Ross Quirk</title>
		<link>http://simontrewin.com/2007/11/09/oops-i-read-it-again/#comment-26</link>
		<dc:creator>Ross Quirk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There are a million books that we'll never have the chance to read, due mainly to human expectancy, yet we always go back to the books that make us think/feel/relax. 

Books are as subjective as any other form of art, thus it seems only fair that we go back to a novel as we do a painting or a song or photograph. 

I've read the Quiet American 5 times, not because it is my favourite book, but because I like to get lost in the period.

Perhaps if Anna Karenina was a wee bit shorter, and my life a wee bit longer, I could happily read it a dozen times.  Either way, a book is a journey, and some are as beautiful the forth time as they were the first.


Perhaps if Anna Karenina was a wee bit shorter i'd be immersed in Russia.  Either way, a book is a journey, and some are as beautiful the forth time as they were the first.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are a million books that we&#8217;ll never have the chance to read, due mainly to human expectancy, yet we always go back to the books that make us think/feel/relax. </p>
<p>Books are as subjective as any other form of art, thus it seems only fair that we go back to a novel as we do a painting or a song or photograph. </p>
<p>I&#8217;ve read the Quiet American 5 times, not because it is my favourite book, but because I like to get lost in the period.</p>
<p>Perhaps if Anna Karenina was a wee bit shorter, and my life a wee bit longer, I could happily read it a dozen times.  Either way, a book is a journey, and some are as beautiful the forth time as they were the first.</p>
<p>Perhaps if Anna Karenina was a wee bit shorter i&#8217;d be immersed in Russia.  Either way, a book is a journey, and some are as beautiful the forth time as they were the first.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Anne Lyken-Garner</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anne Lyken-Garner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Simon, I was given your website address by a fellow writer (who I 'met' on a writing forum) who has seen some excerpts from my book.  She said that YOU are the person to contact.

I would be so bold as to do that shortly.  I will send you a website sumbission, but I will also post you one if you don't mind.

I went to a 'write your own novel' workshop (quite an expensive one, mind) and one of the things they said was that agents prefer paper in their hands, as most manuscripts' reading is done away from the office.

I'm going to follow this advice (why pay for it, and not heed it right?).

Another thing they said was to keep all correspndence short, so maybe I've already gone over my quota.  Now I won't ever convince you to read my work.

Anne</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Simon, I was given your website address by a fellow writer (who I &#8216;met&#8217; on a writing forum) who has seen some excerpts from my book.  She said that YOU are the person to contact.</p>
<p>I would be so bold as to do that shortly.  I will send you a website sumbission, but I will also post you one if you don&#8217;t mind.</p>
<p>I went to a &#8216;write your own novel&#8217; workshop (quite an expensive one, mind) and one of the things they said was that agents prefer paper in their hands, as most manuscripts&#8217; reading is done away from the office.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m going to follow this advice (why pay for it, and not heed it right?).</p>
<p>Another thing they said was to keep all correspndence short, so maybe I&#8217;ve already gone over my quota.  Now I won&#8217;t ever convince you to read my work.</p>
<p>Anne</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Tina</title>
		<link>http://simontrewin.com/guestbook/#comment-23</link>
		<dc:creator>Tina</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hello Simon ,
I found a link to your website through www.bloomsbury.com.
I'm in the process of writing a fiction and I must say that your advices and the link to Julia McCutchen's website were really useful.
Thanks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello Simon ,<br />
I found a link to your website through <a href="http://www.bloomsbury.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.bloomsbury.com</a>.<br />
I&#8217;m in the process of writing a fiction and I must say that your advices and the link to Julia McCutchen&#8217;s website were really useful.<br />
Thanks.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Susan Surman</title>
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		<dc:creator>Susan Surman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As an actress turned writer, I thoroughly enjoyed reading about Simon's background and, in some ways, could relate. Boston-born, I lived abroad for nearly 25 years, acting/writing (as Susan Kramer/Gracie Luck) in London, Sydney, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Dublin. The pivot came very quickly. I was rehearsing for a TV show, had to take the train to a draughty church hall with my lunch in a brown paper sack...the same week, I was meeting with a producer about my screenplay, "You're Never Alone With Schizophrenia" and I was taken to lunch in a chauffeur driven white  Rolls Royce. That, plus the producer's words: "We can get 2000 actresses to play a role, if you can write, we bow down to you" determined my next steps. "I'll stick to writing"....Performed, published, now looking for an agent - my 2 agents are now dead - maybe this time... Simon Trewin??????</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As an actress turned writer, I thoroughly enjoyed reading about Simon&#8217;s background and, in some ways, could relate. Boston-born, I lived abroad for nearly 25 years, acting/writing (as Susan Kramer/Gracie Luck) in London, Sydney, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Dublin. The pivot came very quickly. I was rehearsing for a TV show, had to take the train to a draughty church hall with my lunch in a brown paper sack&#8230;the same week, I was meeting with a producer about my screenplay, &#8220;You&#8217;re Never Alone With Schizophrenia&#8221; and I was taken to lunch in a chauffeur driven white  Rolls Royce. That, plus the producer&#8217;s words: &#8220;We can get 2000 actresses to play a role, if you can write, we bow down to you&#8221; determined my next steps. &#8220;I&#8217;ll stick to writing&#8221;&#8230;.Performed, published, now looking for an agent - my 2 agents are now dead - maybe this time&#8230; Simon Trewin??????</p>
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		<title>Comment on Guestbook by Abi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Abi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi there, I have just been looking at your site, I saw your name on a writer's tip website, and thought I'd just say thanks for the tips I'm going to work hard and you never know maybe one day I'll be sending my manuscript to your for your honest opinion.

Abi</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi there, I have just been looking at your site, I saw your name on a writer&#8217;s tip website, and thought I&#8217;d just say thanks for the tips I&#8217;m going to work hard and you never know maybe one day I&#8217;ll be sending my manuscript to your for your honest opinion.</p>
<p>Abi</p>
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