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Is This Going to Be a Breakthrough Piece of Fiction?

I was looking this morning on the website. We're recording this a couple days in advance. Someone's been $35,000 for one of these manuscripts. Did you have any sense that this is going to be a breakthrough piece of fiction for you personally? I just thought, okay, I'm just going to cash in what chips I've got here and just write something really weird. You were multiple novels into your career? Yeah, I had published two novels previously,. Both of them actually were written in kind of when I was desperate in one way or another.

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