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Nixing Naysayers

“I’d literally been told I wasn’t pop-star material.” Sir Elton John When my dear friend and gifted writer, Linda, quoted this line from Me, Elton John’s autobiography, we both had a good laugh. Needless to say, the naysayer Elton encountered … Continue reading

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Finding Fuel

“I wasn’t going to give up until every single publisher turned me down, but I often feared that would happen…. Don’t you dare let their laughter extinguish your ambition. Turn it into fuel! Big hugs from one writer to another.”    … Continue reading

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