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The road to publication is like a churro - long and bumpy, but sweet.

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Jay Asher
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: September 30
Novelist
Writer
Arcadia
California
Like
Bumpy
Publication
Road
Sweet
Journey
Long

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