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1st BOOKS is hosted by

Meg Waite Clayton

bestselling author of
The Four Ms. Bradwells,
The Wednesday Sisters,
The Language of Light,
and the forthcoming
The Wednesday Daughters

A Few Favorite Guest Posts:

"Starting Over" by Alex George, author of A Good American

"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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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.