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On The Road To Publishville # 7 - "Not letting go, but moving on..."

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# "Movin' on is a chance  you take  any time you try to stay...  together..." # - Billy Joel "2 years down the road..." "The time has come, my friends, to talk of other things... of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings... and why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings... Calloo, Callay, come run away... with the cabbages and kings..." I recently went to hear a certain author  talk about his newest book to be published and he mentioned the fact that the first book he wrote as an aspiring author was actually not published until 6 books into his published career.  This was a shocking fact to hear at first, being an aspiring author myself and being so attached to the book I've written first and have hopes pinned on being my debut novel as a "proper" published author, but it's also a sobering thing to know, and nicely coincides with a slow-burning realisation that I'm s