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The Truth in Fiction

The Truth in Fiction

At the age of 40, I decided to pursue a long-held dream of writing and started with a young adult, coming-of-age novel. It gathered only rejections. While plugging away at my next novel, a work of adult commercial fiction, I was tasked with writing a nonfiction piece for a communications class. After passing it in, […]

July 21, 2014 | By Amy Mackin | 7 Replies More

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