First rule of writing is to read everything you can get you… - Rachel Zadok

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First rule of writing is to read everything you can get your hands on to fill your head with ideas. And then, once you have your story down, let it rest. Then revise, revise, revise.

Rachel Zadok

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Rachel Zadok (October 5, 1972) is a South African writer and a Whitbread First Novel Award nominee (2005). She is the author of the novels Gem Squash Tokoloshe and Sister-Sister.

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