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Great! Things are happening… though not at lightning speed.
I’m in touch (e-mail and phone) with a Holocaust educational institution, and have e-mailed a query to two U.S. literary agents to see if they’re interested in representing Kristallnacht.
One Norwegian publisher has looked at Kristallnacht, and while they’ve just finished work on their WWII curricular books, they suggested [...]

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Not much writing the past month. Kristallnacht is as finished as it can get by now, and Judenrat needs more research.
I’ve sent Kristallnacht to a publisher in Norway, and have established contact with the Holocaust Teacher Resource Center, who seem interested in the project. (No reply yet from Yad Vashem or the Simon Wiesenthal Center).

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I’ve been mulling this over.
On the one hand, it’s a good idea to get in touch with publishers at an early stage, because:

I’ll know which ones, if any, are interested
The publisher will have the time to understand the product fully; especially important for the marketing departments, which don’t always know what to do with unconventional [...]

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