Nine Books That Helped Me Finish My First Novel

Each of these books played a role in getting me over the finish line.

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Reading is such an important part of being a writer.

Most of you will have heard this advice before. It gets passed around a lot. But for a lot of new writers, it seems counter-intuitive. They’ll brag about how little they read, thinking that…