As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.


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Rhy shook his head, exasperated. “Kell isn't the only one you fail to understand. My bond with him...
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Then why are you smiling?” “Because,” she said, “bad ideas are my favorite kind.
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And strategy is just a fancy word for a special kind of common sense, the ability to see options, to...
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A myth without a voice is like a dandelion without a breath of wind.
No way to spread the seeds...
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And then his arms were folding around her, and in that small gesture, she understood, felt it down t...
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Death comes for us all," said Holland evenly. "I would simply have mine mean something.
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Kell swept Lila up into his arms, amazed at her lightness. She took up so much space in the world—...
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In myths, the hero survives.
The evil is vanquished.
The world is set right.
Sometime...
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On vis och," he told himself.

Dawn to dusk. A phrase that meant two things in his native ...
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Myths do not happen all at once.
They do not spring forth whole into the world. They form slow...
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I have never known what to make of you. Not since the day we met. And it terrifies me. You terrify m...
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I told you to keep him safe, not cuddle."
Alucard spread his hands behind him on the sheets. "I...
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Life isn't made of choices, it's made of trades. Some are good, some are bad, but they all have a co...
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A low whistle behind him as Alucard appeared at the entrance.
'Picking out a gift?' asked the c...
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What are we drinking to?"
"The living," said Rhy.
"The dead," said Alucard and Lila at the...
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She was a thief, a runaway, a pirate, a magician.
She was fierce, and powerful, and terrifying....
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Love and loss,” he said, “are like a ship and the sea. They rise together. The more we love, the...
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Her goal is to be a champion tennis player. She's a former No. 1 junior player in the world. She con...
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I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them al...
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I want to believe that there's more. That we could be more. Hell, we could be heroes.
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She used to think that if she stole enough, the want would fade, the hunger would go away, but maybe...
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Da used to say that lies were easy, but trust was hard. Trust is like faith: it can turn people into...
VICTORIA SCHWAB
Lying is easy. But it’s lonely.
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Technology is going to revolutionize almost every sector, leading to the demise of many traditional ...
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There's a difference between fear and paralysis. And I've learned that I don't have to "grow up" to ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB
Be lost. Give up. Give In. in the end It would be better to surrender before you begin. be lost. Be ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB
Sing you a song and steal your soul.
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Ah, there you are, Bard,” came a familiar voice, and she turned to see Alucard striding over.
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Doubt is like a current you have to swim against, one that saps your strength.
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When I was 14, I did all kinds of different odd jobs. I had a chicken farm, had an ice cream operati...
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We can talk in the abstract about what a rebuilt New Orleans would look like. In the end that is not...
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Well," I ask, leaning over him, "do you wish to stay?"
"I do."
"And why is that, Cole?" I ...
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Europe has never had a single or unified voice in world affairs: a common foreign policy. It has oft...
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I frankly think we in the financial service world believe we need appropriate kinds of regulations. ...
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Victor wondered about lots of things. He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, ...
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The paper called Eli a hero. The word made Victor laugh. Not just because it was absurd, but because...
VICTORIA SCHWAB
The moments that define lives aren't always obvious. They don't always scream LEDGE, and nine times ...
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Victor was naturally quiet, but even more so under pressure, which gave his peers the distinct impre...
VICTORIA SCHWAB
Like everything was real, but nothing mattered.
VICTORIA SCHWAB
I don’t want to be forgotten.
VICTORIA SCHWAB
There were some people you had to stay away from, people who poisoned everything in reach. Then ther...
VICTORIA SCHWAB
You don't understand," gasped Eli. "No one understands."
"When no one understands, that's usual...
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The absence of pain led to an absence of fear, and the absence of fear led to a disregard for conseq...
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Did you know that when you take away a person's fear of pain, you take away their fear of death? You...
VICTORIA SCHWAB
You must make time for that which matters, for that which defines you: your passion, your progress, ...
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I watch you, and it's like watching two people.
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