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Seth McLane lives in York, Pennsylvania with his wife, teenage kids, and golden retriever, Clark. As a teacher, he has spent two decades hanging with middle schoolers—putting books in their hands, giving them notebooks to fill up, and subjecting them to his corny jokes.

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My Journey to Self-Publishing

If I’m being completely honest, I feel a bit like a fraud, an imposter. I’ve been pursuing this goal—secretly—for ten years. GOOSH is my fourth completed manuscript. The goal was to be traditionally published, to be fought over by literary agents, to travel to New York, and to get multiple offers from the big publishers.

I got close. I’ve had two agents. I learned so much from my first agent. She Read more of this blog post »

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Published on May 01, 2024 05:47 • Tags: self-publishing

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The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

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