The day your first book comes out will be the best day of your life. You’ll do an interview for BBC Shropshire, appear on a podcast hosted by a couple of SOAS DPhils, someone with a Substack you once read will review your book for the Swindon Advertiser. You’ll go to your book launch, where everyone you’ve ever met will be in one room, and you’ll feel like a rock star. You’ll get drunk and make a slightly foolish speech where you talk about the power of storytelling and compare Boris Johnson to Heinrich Himmler. Your editor will give a speech where they make wild claims about your literary significance. The audience will cheer. Your parents will be proud. Your friends will look at you with new found respect. You’re a writer now. Your words matter. Your judgements matter. People will treat you with a certain reverence.
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