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I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.

Everything I publish is for my readers.

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.