Meg Waite Clayton

New York Times Bestselling Author

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How to Chat Up a Writer

I came across the very funny “How to Chat Up a Writer” on Pear Tree and A Year and a Day author Leslie Pietrzyk’s blog (thanks to a tweet by this week’s 1st Books guest, Fobbit author David Abrams), which I thought would be terrific “Friday Fun.” A sample:
“A writer? Are you published?”
This is a punch to the gut to any writer not published, or not published much. It’s a big, bold step for most of us to call ourselves a “writer.” If we weren’t a “writer,” we would have called ourselves something else. We’re writers, published or not. And what we’re thinking is: You’re a lawyer? Have you won any Supreme Court cases?
Try instead: What do you write?
Really wonderful. I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did.
Have a fun Friday, and a great weekend! – Meg

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Meg Waite Clayton

Meg Waite Clayton is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of THE LAST TRAIN TO LONDON, a Jewish Book Award finalist based on the true story of the Kindertransport rescue of ten thousand children from Nazi-occupied Europe—and one brave woman who helped them escape. Her six prior novels include the Langum-Prize honored The Race for Paris and The Wednesday Sisters, one of Entertainment Weekly's 25 Essential Best Friend Novels of all time. A graduate of the University of Michigan and its law school, she has also written for the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Forbes, Runners World, and public radio, often on the subject of the particular challenges women face. megwaiteclayton.com