Nonfiction | September 01, 1987
Outpost Editing, Backwoods Publishing
Shannon Ravenel
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I’ve been staring at these four words now for too long, doing so with rising panic. My initial plan, put into play over a month ago, had been to tell you about my own experiences?? I’ve had a long string of jobs in all sorts of publishing, both outpost and establishment.
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