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Meg Waite Clayton

Author of the international bestsellers The Postmistress of Paris, The Last Train to London, and 7 other novels

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January 28, 2009 By Meg Waite Clayton

Jamie Ford: Call in Sick More Often

I'm absolutely delighted to host fellow Ballantine author Jamie Ford this week. I had the great fortune to get an advanced copy of his first novel, The Hotel on …

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Filed Under: Guest Authors Tagged With: ballantine, first novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, IndieBound, Jamie Ford

January 14, 2009 By Meg Waite Clayton

From On Becoming a Novelist, by John Gardner

Some words of wisdom from John Gardner, whose The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers is the writing book I most often turn to. This one, though, …

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January 7, 2009 By Meg Waite Clayton

Hemingway's Advice to Writers

For a new slant in the new year right, I've decided to mix author guest posts with advice from other writers on how a writer might ... do whatever it is we do. …

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