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Happy Birthday, Jane Austen

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A Date which will Live in Infamy, and the Value of a Word

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The Story Was Completely Untrue

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All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published: Poker Losses and Writing Wins

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Daphne Kalotay: The Hastily Jotted Letter R

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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."— Eleanor Roosevelt

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"The Not Quite Yes" by Julia Glass, 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

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

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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.

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