31.   My only goal had been finally to publish a novel.

32.   My novel was published recently and is getting fair reviews.

33.   Nonetheless, it took me years to get the novel published.

34.   Only he did not have a literary agent and he had never published a novel.

35.   Probably true, but also wishful, since next summer she is publishing a novel by William F. Buckley Jr. about the rise and fall of Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

36.   Q. Updike, Roth, and Bellow published novels then.

37.   Relatively late in life, he also published a novel.

38.   She had published four novels in a decade.

39.   Since then, she has published a novel, done consulting and lobbying work, and worked as a lawyer in private practice.

40.   So good reviews for a first novel can mean that the writer will more easily get a second novel published with a higher advance.