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I dont really have an office or anything, and I like to have to move location every two hours. So I just kind of write in a park, on a bench, in the library, in a cafe, back to the library, that kind of thing.

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Steve Toltz
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: January 1
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Sydney
NSW
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