Dana Swift

Young Adult Fantasy Author

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How I Got my Literary Agent

November 11, 2018 by danaswift2@gmail.com

I hesitated in writing this blog post because I always thought when it finally came time to write about how I got a literary agent it would be an epic of strife and turmoil. And yes, while there was some of that, when you boil it down, I got my agent mostly due to luck. […]

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One of the Greatest Lessons I Had to Learn about Writing

November 22, 2017 by danaswift2@gmail.com

I grew up wanting to be a writer and one day, an author. I also grew up being told and knowing my goal was: Difficult beyond belief, basically the equivalent of wanting to be a famous anything Cute when little, but I needed to rethink and charge into a career that meant I earned actual […]

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