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Tenyo wrote:The publishing industry can be quite discriminative against age, so leave it out where you can. 35 - 65 is the best age. Teenagers change who they are too much, young adults go travelling, or settle down and have families. These are things that are likely to disrupt your style or cause you to stop writing all together, and agents want someone who is in it for the long run.
On that, have you written any books since? It would help, a lot. If you can show the agent that you are committed and you know what you're doing they'll take you more seriously. In 2012 having your own facebook, twitter, and all that jazz under your pen name may not help *much* in the initial stages, having something like that running and building up a light fanbase (even if it's just ywsers) will look good too.
Self publishing is even harder than it used to be because there are so many people doing it.
Overall remember, Stephen King's Carrie was rejected 30 times before it got published. Gone with the wind was rejected 38 times. I heard somewhere that JKRowling only got picked up because the daughter of a member of the agency she sent it to begged him to publish it.
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