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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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August 24, 2010 By Meg Waite Clayton

The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published #14: Very Superstitious, Writing's on the Wall…

Seven months till publication of The Four Ms. Bradwells! Seven months. Not seven years. No broken mirrors or bad luck here. No need for Stevie Wonder songs. So …

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July 22, 2010 By Meg Waite Clayton

The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 11: We Need Permission! And a Latin Expert!

In Part 6 of this "All-True" series, I blogged about Beth Pearson and her amazing team who, among other things, flagged every place in The Four Ms. Bradwells …

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July 15, 2010 By Meg Waite Clayton

The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 10: The Dreaded Author Photo

To be honest, I'm not sure why I'm not skipping right over this author photo bit and moving on to The Four Ms. Bradwells showing up on Amazon. I. Hate. Photos. …

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July 8, 2010 By Meg Waite Clayton

The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 9: Titles and DESCRIPTIONS and Author Photos – Oh My! (the "Description" part)

One funny thing about writing a book is how hard it is to reduce 300+ pages of prose to a one- or two-paragraph description. So the good news is that when your …

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July 1, 2010 By Meg Waite Clayton

The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 8: TITLES and Descriptions and Author Photos – Oh My!

The working title for The Four Ms. Bradwells was "The Ms. Bradwells," which comes from an 1873 Supreme Court case, Bradwell v. Illinois, in which nine white …

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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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June 1, 2010 By Meg Waite Clayton

The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 5: Hunting the Elusive Agent

I've gotten a few requests from readers of this series to write a few words about how I got an agent. It's a step I skipped because I already had an agent - not …

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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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