Public speaking, for me, or speaking even in front of a handful of people is my greatest fear.

There are times when I'll send a manuscript to an editor, and I'll think it is the most likely project I've ever sent them. And they might call me the next morning and say they couldn't tolerate it. That happens so frequently that I've given up any expectation of knowing what anybody's going to like.

I have no idea how people think of literary agents. Truthfully, I don't think they think of them very often.

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