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Guest Post & Giveaway: Jean Reagan on Writing from the Hole in Your Heart

Guest Post & Giveaway: Jean Reagan on Writing from the Hole in Your Heart

Posted on March 24, 2015January 4, 2019

Jean’s children, John and Jane

By Jean Reagan

Many years ago in a writing class, Kathi Appelt said, “Write from the hole in your heart.”

At the time, I had just received sketches for my first picture book, Always My Brother, illustrated by Phyllis Pollema-Cahill (Tilbury House 2009).

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