How I Became an Accidental Author of ‘Dark Academia'
When I finished the novel, it was rejected—this time by the entire U.S. publishing industry. But my agent sent it to a U.K. house, Harvill Secker, who published it in 2013. Two years later a U.S. house, Picador, picked it up. The book is now going into its 19th printing.
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