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Overcoming Adversity

Submissions & Proposals How Rejection (and Taylor Swift) Inspired My Publishing Success Story

Author Heather Frances shares her story of how repeated rejection (and a Taylor Swift documentary) inspired her own publishing success story.

Heather Frances

Submissions & Proposals Coping With Publishing Heartbreak: Brownie Bites and Bad Poetry R.L. Maizes

Submissions & Proposals Finding Strength in Rejection: Turning Setbacks Into Success as a Writer Deanna Martinez-Bey

Writing Habits and Practices However Far Away—The Race Toward a Shifting Finish Line Rajinderpal S. Pal

Write Better Nonfiction Flat on My Back and Writing in My Head: On Writing My Book After a Stroke (and Believing I Was Sherlock Holmes)Timothy Miller

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