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How I Built This with Guy Raz

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How Did You Quit Your Job at Book List?

Alaska received such generous reviews and then started to win awards. I actually didn't have an agent at the time. There's a little bit of a different era in publishing, at least YA publishing. And one of the editors called me back and said that they wanted to publish the book. That was not the end of the story though. But I spent another year and a half revising the book with my editor Julie Strasskable.

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