Mariia Manko asked Lauren Rowe:

Lauren, when did you realize yourself as a writer? After writing first book, publishing , success or …? You know this feeling inside «I am truly a writer»

Lauren Rowe Good question! My first book, ever, was a memoir published by a traditional publisher. So I had the weird and surreal experience of walking into a mainstream bookstore and seeing it on the shelf. I have also traveled the world and walked into many bookstores in foreign countries. And whenever I see a book of mine sitting on a shelf in German, italian, Spanish, French . . .I feel in that moment like "HOLY CRAP! I AM A WRITER!!!!!" After so many books written now, the feeling comes every time I write "The End" on another book. But in the beginning I admit the outward validation of seeing a book of mine in the wild, alongside other authors, available to be purchased for actual money, like that's totally normal, was the thing that at first made me say, "THIS IS REAL WHOA."

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