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Winter Song

Fiction: Debut

Set in Minnesota in 1986, Winter Song follows the intertwined lives of a small-town police chief facing mandatory retirement, and a young felon recently released from prison, whose headlong quest to regain the life he lost will force the chief into a painful reassessment of his legacy.

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Toni Morrison

It is what you don’t write that frequently gives what you do write its power.

John Steinbeck

And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.

Pearl S. Buck

I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that.

William Wordsworth

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

Margaret Atwood

A word after a word after a word is power.

Donna Tartt

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

Jane Smiley

Every first draft is perfect because all the first draft has to do is exist.