Aaron Polish asked Kitty Bardot:

How did you know when you wanted to become an author?

Kitty Bardot I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember. I’ve got journals saved from as far back as high school and piles of notebooks with story ideas. I bought a couple stacks of romance paperbacks for ten cents a piece. I spent a summer reading them and decided that the romance genre combined three of my favorite things in life, writing, sex, and happily ever afters. I wrote a full manuscript that was absolute garbage and sent it to a well known publisher. It was way back when you had to print the whole thing and actually mail it. That was my first rejection. But I kept at it and found inspiration around every corner of my life.

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