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Author of the international bestsellers The Postmistress of Paris, The Last Train to London, and 6 other novels

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June 22, 2010 By Meg Waite Clayton

The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 7: It's a … Well, Not a Book, Exactly, but an ARC. Or an ARE?

I've just arrive home from ten days in Berlin and Prague to find a box of advanced reader copies of The Four Ms. Bradwells on my doorstep! Woo hoo!!! For those …

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June 5, 2010 By Meg Waite Clayton

The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 6: It Starts to Look Like a Book!!! (a.k.a. in Praise of Beth Pearson)

My tweet for May 15 reads "Page proofs for THE FOUR MS. BRADWELLS just arrived! Woo hooo! It looks like a book!" Which is all the work of others, whose praise …

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May 22, 2010 By Meg Waite Clayton

The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 3: Why I LOVE my Editor

You may recall that when last you saw our fearless hero (me!), she'd had the bad judgment to send her editor a revised draft of The Four Ms. Bradwells on …

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May 17, 2010 By Meg Waite Clayton

The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 2: Brainstorm, and Revise, Revise, Revise!

In Part 1 of this little series, "Manuscript Puberty," I shared the experience of sending a first draft of my new novel, The Four Ms. Bradwells, to my editor, …

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May 15, 2010 By Meg Waite Clayton

The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 1: Manuscript Puberty

I just got my first peek at the likely cover for my new novel, The Four Ms. Bradwells, along with a description of what the book is about. The two together got …

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February 19, 2010 By Meg Waite Clayton

"The Ghost within Every Experience"

From Mark Strand's "On Becoming a Poet" in The Making of a Poem, an idea for what a poem may be, which I think also applies to fiction: "A poem may be ... the …

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