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"The Not Quite Yes" by Julia Glass, National Book Award-winning author of Three Junes and The Widower's Tale

"Call in Sick More Often" by Jamie Ford, author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

"When Your First Book is Not Your First" by Eleanor Brown, author of Weird Sisters

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"The 136-Rejection Overnight Success" by Brenda Rickman Vantrease, author of The Illuminator and The Heretic's Wife

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Literary Envy February 22, 2012
Alex George: Starting Over February 22, 2012
Eleanor Brown: When Your First Book Is Not Your First February 22, 2012
Dickens Quotes for Writers, on the Occasion of his 200th Birthday February 22, 2012

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