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Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.
Sara Sheridan
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Sara Sheridan
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 7
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