Meg Waite Clayton

New York Times Bestselling Author

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Never Pity Your Manuscript

“The main rule of the writer is never to pity your manuscript. The wastebasket is a writer’s best friend. Mine is on a steady diet.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer, from a long, interesting piece in the March 23, 1975 New York Times
I’m taking that advice to heart as I launch into revisions on The Wednesday Daughters. (Yes, I know there is a preview bound into the paperback of The Four Ms. Bradwells going on sale next month, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t still work to do! Count me among the writers who have been known to revise even after the book is on bookstore shelves.)
I hope you find yourself as thankful as I am this Thanksgiving to be living the writing life. – Meg

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Meg Waite Clayton

Meg Waite Clayton is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of THE LAST TRAIN TO LONDON, a Jewish Book Award finalist based on the true story of the Kindertransport rescue of ten thousand children from Nazi-occupied Europe—and one brave woman who helped them escape. Her six prior novels include the Langum-Prize honored The Race for Paris and The Wednesday Sisters, one of Entertainment Weekly's 25 Essential Best Friend Novels of all time. A graduate of the University of Michigan and its law school, she has also written for the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Forbes, Runners World, and public radio, often on the subject of the particular challenges women face. megwaiteclayton.com