Kathleen Donohoe
Jul 25, 2017 · 1 min read

I finished a novel when I was 22. It didn’t sell. Ten years of writing around a 9–5 job, and I finished a second. Also didn’t sell. Four years later, on my 40th birthday, I finished the first draft of my third novel. It was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in August 2016. Never quit!

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