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"If you’re someone that really doesn’t like people, don’t go where the people are. Everyone will be able to tell you’re unhappy. Stay home and post pictures of your cats. We’ll be much cooler with that. Don’t make yourself miserable because you have to do something. There is no one person who holds the key to your career. There’s no single technique that gets you that super mega ultra bestseller... You have to live the way you want to live, and if that’s in isolation, just make sure you keep reading, stay abreast of genre and what’s going on, and you’ll do fine." Seanan McGuire, interviewed in Locus, December 2017.

I'm so aware of a vast and vigorous community of writers, editors, publishers, and fans, of which I'm not a part, due to chronic illness and social anxiety - so these words were greatly encouraging.