Today's lesson of novel-writing - accost someone from a mailing list, whose writing style you admire, and sneakily mention that you have just finished writing a novel, in some context that will intrigue them. Once they have taken the bait, let them read it on the condition that it is a proof-reading. They will turn out to be the finest proof-reader you could possibly have hoped for, worthy of heaping praise and compliments upon, and writing a praise-singing blog entry about. Praise them until they can take no more, then praise them some more anyway. Identity of my favourite proof-reader has been concealed to protect the innocent.
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