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How One Late-Blooming Author Turned a Publishing Fiasco into Hilarious...
Dame P.D. James maintains, “Nothing that happens to a novelist is ever wasted.” Case in point: As her boyfriend guns his Harley into the sunset, a writer named Anne contemplates a drawer full of...
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The Strange Surprising Deeds of Daniel Defoe
On the night of November 24, the winter wind turned murderous. It toppled walls and sent the Thames River raging into people’s cellars. Within 48 hours, that wind mutated into the worst storm in...
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Madeleine L'Engle was over age 40 when she wrote her beloved book. Yet 26 publishers rejected A Wrinkle in Time because they felt children couldn't fathom evil.
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At age 53, Lilian Jackson Braun published her first novel featuring a feline gumshoe. But her fourth was rejected because it didn't contain sex and violence. She took a break and came back more popular...
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