Thursday, July 23, 2009

What Mentoring Isn’t

Some people go into a mentoring relationship with unrealistic expectations of what it should be. The following is a list of things that mentoring isn’t:

  • A Guarantee for a Book Contract
  • A Relationship that Lasts Forever
  • A substitute for reading books and/or attending conferences to learn how to write, submit queries, market books etc.
  • A way to get someone to edit your work for you.
  • A method of getting a good ideas that agents and publishers will jump on.
  • A substitute for building a platform.

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