Over on the Insecure Writer’s Support Group, I wrote about “The Long Haul:”

A publishing friend of mine who is much smarter than I about such things once said to me, “The only true marker of success in this business is longevity.”

After 17 years and 27 books, I suppose by that metric I would have no choice but to consider myself a success. It’s funny, though — it doesn’t feel like success.

This could lead us down a deep, dark rabbit hole of what is success and what does success feel like, but instead I think I want to talk about the other side of the equation: Longevity.

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