"The years spent in the freelance trenches eventually paid off; I would go on to have some remarkable assignments. I've toured the great s of Italy, gone on a mock honeymoon in Hawaii, driven an across the , all on someone else's dime. Whenever people ask how they can get those same kinds of assignments, I recommend what worked for me: eight years writing freelance articles for ."
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Novelists from the United StatesEssayists from the United StatesMemoirists from the United StatesWomen authors from the United StatesWomen born in the 1960s
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