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"The Not Quite Yes" by Julia Glass, author of Three Junes and The Widower's Tale

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

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

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About 1st BOOKS: Stories of How Writers Get Started

If you think writers are born rather than made and brilliant writing is recognized immediately, those rejection slips for your novel—or story or nonfiction query, or (heaven help you) letter to your own mother—can seem a daunting thing. The truth is getting started as a writer takes hard work, persistence, and a bit of luck.