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This is not a tell-all post about the publishing industry, or a ‘how I got a book deal (and if you follow these steps, you can too!)’. This is about how it feels to write and publish your first book or, at least, how it felt to me. These are the lessons I learnt the first time…
Becoming a published author was at once all I dreamed…