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On Writing – My Top 10 Tips

May 31, 2012 by Jo Maeder 1 Comment

  ­­I took the long, scenic route to getting published. Fifteen years, seven other books, and four literary agents preceded the publication of When I Married My Mother. Whatever success my writing brings me is the result of working with great editors and agents, taking criticism extremely well, and being crazy. I’m convinced that “writer” and […]

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