title: Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers
author:  Carolyn See 
description: This guide to literary success is wonderfully original and smart and funny and down-to-earthjust what desperate beginning writers desperately need.<br />Alison Lurie<br /><br />This is a terrific and extremely useful book for anyone who wants to write. Carolyn See is brilliant and funny, crabby and tender and wise.<br />Anne Lamott<br /><br />Wise, witty, practical, mordant, funny, this is the only guide to becoming a writer that may actually work. Its a primer on Carolyn See: great artist, large soul.<br />James Ellroy<br /><br />Carolyn See doesnt just tell you to sharpen your pencils, she shows you how to sharpen your wits.<br />Rita Mae Brown<br /><br />After reading Making a Literary Life, I have decided to abandon my present career and become an aspirant writer, this time guided by Carolyn Sees wonderfully instructive (and readable) book.<br />William F. Buckley, Jr.<br /><br />Carolyn See has been giving me lessons on writing and living since my first book came out, and when Carolyn See talks, I obey. I bow down in gratitude. We should rejoice at this serious, joyful, irreverent, and very practical book.<br />Elizabeth Benedict<br /><br />If everyone who wants to be a writer would read this book there would be many more good writers, many more happy writers, and editors would be so overwhelmed by sweetness they would accept many more good books. So what are you waiting for? Read it!<br />Ursula K. Le Guin<br /><br /><br /><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>
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  **Dream Lover**
  
  By: Té Russ
  
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  To my number one fan, my husband-
  
  Your belief in me has gotten me to this place.
  
  I love you.
  
    
    
  
  Dear Reader,
  
  Welcome to my very first book. I appreciate you giving me the chance to share
  my passion with you. When I first began this story years ago, it started as a
  dream I'd had. I thought that it would make a good story. I began the first
  chapter and set it aside. It collected virtual dust, as life took over. Then
  last year, I decided that I wanted to finish the stories that I'd started.
  Once I got started, the words just flowed out. At some point in 2011, I
  decided that a year from that point I wanted to be a published writer and now
  that dream is coming true.
  
  The characters in this story, as well as the other stories I have written,
  mean a lot to me. Be sure to pay close attention to other characters in the
  story as well, you never know who may turn up again in future books. And
  believe