When you care about the books you write, it’s easy to slip into a negative headspace when those stories aren’t received the way you hoped. You worry that you’re an unoriginal hack who has tricked everyone into thinking you write decent books. You fear that the books you’ve released were just a fluke and you’ll never publish anything else ever again.

While these fears are normal, I promise they are not true.

So if you’re in need of a pep talk, this episode is for you.

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