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At times I've been invited to speak to aspiring writers about my "career path." This always Seemed on a par with asking Hannibal for tips on mountain travel. Yeah, he did cross the Alps, but, damn, it would have been a heck of a lot easier without all those elephants. [paragraph] Let's say you're attending one of our more prestigious writing programs, dreaming of that Nobel prize in Literature, those handsome boxed sets, the dazzling soirees, clinking glasses and other literary luminaries. Should you be taking advice from someone who got her start writing pesticide brochures, true-confession stories, and romance novels? Is this route going to lead you to Guggenheim grants? Yaddo fellowships? Probably not. But since most of our career paths start in the enchanted little village of Paying the Rent, I like to go public about my wandering through the land of romance, with emphasis on a particularly excruciating stop at the Five-Page First Kiss.
No job counselor pointed my way to the first-ever Romance Writers of...
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