Margot Sullivan
Quiet, funny and devastating. Sullivan writes about starting over better than anyone I know.
A woman walks out of her marriage on a Tuesday in March with no plan and one suitcase.

Meet Margot Sullivan
I spent twelve years as a book editor in New York before I admitted that the thing I actually wanted to do was write. That was 2016. I quit my job, moved to a rented farmhouse in the Hudson Valley, and wrote my first novel in six months of total panic.
Four books later, I'm still here. Still panicking, a little. I write about ordinary people making decisions they can't take back — the kind of choices that look small from the outside but rearrange everything.
Blog
- On finishing a draft and not knowing if it worksI sent the manuscript to my editor last Thursday. I've been useless since. This is the part nobody tells you about.
- Books that changed how I writePeople always ask who my influences are, and I never know how to answer without sounding like I'm performing good taste.
- Why I left publishing to writeI edited other people's books for twelve years. Good books, mostly. Some great ones.
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