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The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published #12: The Importance of Kind Words … and Book Giveaway Thanks for Same!

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The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 11: We Need Permission! And a Latin Expert!

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The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 10: The Dreaded Author Photo

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The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 9: Titles and DESCRIPTIONS and Author Photos – Oh My! (the “Description” part)

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First Books
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Meg Waite Clayton,
author of the national bestseller, The Wednesday Sisters, and the forthcoming The Four Ms. Bradwells (Ballantine, March 2011)

“A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.” -William Faulkner

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Authors Who've Appeared on 1st Books Include:

Dan Chaon, author of National Book Award finalist Among the Missing, You Remind Me of Me, and Await Your Reply
Tatjana Soli, author of The Lotus Eaters, a New York Times Editor's Choice.
Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Michelle Richmond, New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Fog and No One You Know
Julia Flynn Siler, New York Times bestselling author of The House of Mondavi
and
one of my personal favorite posts:
Bestselling author Brenda Rickman Vantrease's "136-Rejection Overnight Success"

Some Wednesday Sisters Links:

The Wednesday Sisters Website

The Wednesday Sisters Trailer:

The Wednesday Sisters Music Playlist - complete with Johnny Carson's Tonight Show Theme Song:

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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.

1st BOOKS: Stories of How Writers Get Started

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