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CHEATERS INC. & DUMB LUCK LTD.

WRITERS BEWARE OF THIS MISTAKE

CHEATERS INC. & DUMB LUCK LTD. Part 37 From The Chapter – The Reality End of the Pen

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Terry Trueman
Apr 01, 2024
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Okay, technically, it isn’t a “mistake,” it’s an honor & shit, BUT here’s the shadow side of it. As a writer, especially one centered for most of my years of writing life in poetry, I got extraordinarily lucky. My first novel was accepted by a major NY publisher (HarperCollins) when I was fifty-two.

What’s so fuckin’ “lucky” about that, seeing as how I’d been writing since I was seventeen?

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