So far, I’ve managed to avoid answering THE QUESTION at every conference, workshop, panel or random gathering of writers I’ve been a part of for the past four years. Inevitably, the conversation becomes a swap meet of pre-publication battle wounds, the Purple Heart of Persistency awarded to the writer with the most rejected manuscripts before getting “the call.”

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