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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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April 15, 2009 By Meg Waite Clayton

Chekhov on Failure and Persistence

"...you must at once and for all give up being worried about successes and failures. Don't let that concern you. It's your duty to go on working steadily day by …

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Filed Under: Meg's Posts, Writing Quotes and Other Literary Fun Tagged With: chekhov, failure, persistence, success

April 10, 2009 By Meg Waite Clayton

On Slush Piles and Finding Agents

This photo of the decidedly undaunting St. Martin's slush pile (the bottom shelf), which Frances Dinklespiel posted about on her wonderful blog, Ghost Word, got …

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Filed Under: Meg's Posts Tagged With: agents, Brenda Rickman Vantrease, Frances Dinklespiel, Kirsten Menger Anderson, meg waite clayton, publishing, The Help, The Illuminator, The Wednesday Sisters, Towers of Gold

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