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On finishing a draft and not knowing if it works

I sent the manuscript to my editor last Thursday. I've been useless since. This is the part nobody tells you about. You spend a year or two inside a book, living with these people, rearranging their f...

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Books that changed how I write

People always ask who my influences are, and I never know how to answer without sounding like I'm performing good taste. So here's the honest list, in roughly the order I encountered them. Olive Kitte...

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Why I left publishing to write

I edited other people's books for twelve years. Good books, mostly. Some great ones. And the whole time, I had this low-grade guilt about the fact that I wasn't writing my own. The problem with knowin...

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