Louise Dean wrote four novels but found writing lonely and needed to work in a team.
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AdvertisementThis as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with prize-winning author Louise Dean about running a business instead of writing.
Before I became an author, I thought you had to be funny and clever to write a novel.
Working alone at my desk was isolatingOver the next two decades, I was in a cycle of writing novels and raising kids.
Persons:
Louise Dean, Dean, she's, —, I'd, Simon & Schuster, Booker, Betty Trask, Le Prince Maurice, that's, weren't, I've
Organizations:
Service, Bookseller, Penguin Random, Costa
Locations:
New York, France, Northern Ireland, Nice, Belfast