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Rejection Letters

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November 2, 2025November 2, 2025 ~ Kana Smith ~ 37 Comments

I've been taking a break from my novel. The one I'm writing, I mean. There's a part of me that feels like I shouldn't write about the novel at all, until the thing is wrapped up (and, heck, while we're at the daydream, sold & printed!). How cliché it is for the unpublished novelist to … Continue reading Rejection Letters

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"As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts."

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    cswatts on The Christmas-Tree Trade-InDecember 19, 2025

    Now I am jealous.

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    Dwight Hyde on The Christmas-Tree Trade-InDecember 19, 2025

    That’s so heat, I love it!❤️😃

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    joannerambling on Technology & the SickBed-NestDecember 19, 2025

    I could be better but I could also be a lot worse

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    Lovely picture. As someone who cannot for the life of me write poetry, I find myself entranced by yours.

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    Farah Arshad on “There’s No Place Like Home”December 19, 2025

    Exactly 💯.There is no place like home 🏠

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