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She is also the author of the House of Furies series, and several titles for adults, including Salvaged and Reclaimed. Madeleine lives in Seattle, Washington with her partner and beloved pups. Greatest thing you learned at school. This is probably a counterintuitive answer, but the best thing I learned—in college, specifically—is that finding your path in publishing will be your responsibility.

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I had to go looking on my own, do research, ask questions, and learn all about getting an agent, querying, etc. Nobody is going to completely hold your hand through the steps of drafting, editing, querying or self-publishing, and expecting a hand hold will only slow you down and leave you disappointed. Tell us your most rewarding experience since being published.

There are so many! Going on my first tour was certainly rewarding, but not necessarily in the way I expected.

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I was in the middle of a horrific breakup, my debut YA novel Asylum had just hit the NYT list out of nowhere, I had awful insomnia, and it was a group tour, so I was convinced the other authors would think I was a total fraud. As soon as I met the other women I was embraced and supported, and I made lifelong friends on that tour.

It was so disarming to just be met with kindness and understanding, not a drop of snobbery. What was the single worst distraction that kept you from writing this book? The pandemic was hitting just as I reached the back half of my draft of The Book of Living Secrets, so that was interesting. I think Covid impacted the editing phase tremendously.