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Hello and Happy Wednesday.
Thank you for the kind and compassionate comments about my Sunday post. I appreciate them and I appreciate you.
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From publisher to published - Craft from the Couch: Episode 10 with Kathleen Boland
Hello and happy Wednesday.
It’s a happy Wednesday indeed because today I’m joined by a woman who was on my publishing team at Catapult, and has since become a published author and a cherished friend. We’ll meet Kathleen in a second, but fi...
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