Goodreads asked Jo Danilo:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Jo Danilo I'm not sure who said it, but I've found it to be so true - your first book will be terrible. It's the training book - the wobbly one with stabilisers. Learn heaps from it, then move on to the next one, which will be so much better. Maybe you can come back and rework your first one into something decent at a later stage.

Many 'debut' novels are not the first novel the writer has ever written, though they might not like to admit it!

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