Dana Swift

Young Adult Fantasy Author

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How I Got my Book Deal

October 10, 2019 by danaswift2@gmail.com

For so long I thought this wasn’t going to happen for me. I hoped and I actively dreamed, but it felt like that, a dream that I would have to wake up from one day. Since I was nine, every birthday wish, fallen eyelash, stray dandelion, and other wishing generating superstition, I pleaded to one […]

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When Doubt Comes from External Forces

July 24, 2019 by danaswift2@gmail.com

I’ve had a lot of people in my life tell me I’m too smart, too educated, too young, too pretty, too whatever to be reaching for the goal of being a writer as a career. But, I’ve known what I’ve wanted to do for years. And yet, people throw contractions in your face like confetti. […]

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What Perseverance Really Means in Publishing

February 1, 2019 by danaswift2@gmail.com

I’ve been thinking about perseverance a lot lately and what it means in the context of publishing a novel. Since starting out on my writing journey I looked at perseverance in the same way I approached and thought about persistence. They are so similar it’s hard to find fault with that logic, but there is […]

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