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Hi, Umar,

Thanks for posting, and good for you! I know what it’s like to write something that’s definitely above your age level!

But I have to ask you not to send it, please. I’ve had to make it my policy not to read other people’s work. I get so many requests that it would very likely not leave me any time for my own writing!

If you really want an opinion on your work, the right place to send it is to a publishing company. Go to your public library and find a book on Writers’ Markets. You can choose the right publisher from there. You don’t mention how old you are now, but if your manuscript is something you wrote at a very early age, something reasonably short and sweet, my advice is to keep it in a safe place and take it out to re-read it once a year, just to amuse yourself. That’s exactly what I did when I was about 9.

Thanks for thinking of me.                                                                           —–Gordon Korman—–