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Every successful author I know faced crushing rejection early on, and they got back up and kept going.

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Karin Slaughter
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 6
Novelist
Writer
Covington
Georgia
Successful
Back
Crushing
Going
Faced
Every
Crush
Rejection
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Kept
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