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Publishing: places are very expensive - Stéfanie Delestré Stéfanie Delestré is the director of the Série Noire collection at Gallimard. Specializing in crime fiction, her advice is invaluable no matter your preferred genre. In this interview, she talks to us about the reality of her job. Does publishing work on nepotism? How many manuscripts does a publishing house receive? What does a publisher expect from the texts they are offered? And conversely, what are the fatal flaws? How can they be avoided? Stéfanie Delestré tells us that there is no secret. Writing is hard work that is done alone. Publishers do not have time to rewrite for authors; most of the work must be done in advance. To give themselves every chance of success, young authors must work on their projects carefully. 5 pages is what Stéfanie Delestré needs to get a concrete idea of the project and its progress. A poorly constructed story, a text full of mistakes, non-existent characters and clumsy syntax send it straight to the trash. She explains why. Interview timeline: 00:00 - Saturation of the book market 03:40 - Discovering authors 04:45 - The qualities of a good manuscript 09:25 - The author must complete his project 10:30 - Bad manuscripts: bad syntax 12:30 - 500 to 1000 manuscripts per year 13:11 - Advice: write on a typewriter WHO ARE WE? Les Artisans de la Fiction is a storytelling training center located in Lyon. We advocate a craft learning of writing techniques and aim to make our students autonomous in the completion of their stories. To do this, we focus on learning and transmitting the basic techniques of storytelling, inspired by English-speaking creative writing. Our students learn as a priority to master: the structure of the plot, the principles of fiction, the construction of its characters, etc. We also offer introductory days to try creative writing and discover if this learning of fiction writing is for you. Find all our writing courses on our website: http://www.artisansdelafiction.com/