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Sara Maurer is the author of A Good Animal, a coming-of-age novel set in Sault Ste. Marie. She lives with her family in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

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At the end of July I received a Payment Advice Note from the Macmillan US Royalties Team and learned that A Good Animal had earned out its advance by its first statement cycle! This was helped in part by a modest advance and selling rights to Book of the Month club and French and German rights. But mostly, I’d say it had to do with me writing a dang good book and readers buy

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“Everything out the window was God. The crows spiraling. The sun dripping off the cool green leaves of the lilac bushes. All of it beautiful, and free to anyone who would open their eyes and look.”
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