The perils, pitfalls and pleasures of self-publishing
By Joan Wilson - 09/03/2010
It was the tread of Old Reliable, the Postie coming up the garden path. A shuffle as he pushed the mail through the letterbox and I picked up the same old letter addressed to me in my own handwriting.
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