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Hi, everyone (though I doubt anyone's gonna read this)! I'm Nina. I'm a writer.

This is off to a great start, isn't it?

One day, I'm going to be a famous author and people are going to stalk my blog and come back and find this post and think, "Maybe she's not that great, anyway."

Anyway, I wrote a book called The Knowers. It's actually not that bad. I'm hoping that it'll be published one day. As of now, I've sent countless queries (not countless, more like twenty-two). I haven't gotten any offers yet, but I've gotten some amazing advice from some very sweet people.

The Knowers is about these super smart kids. Really, I could try to explain it, but it would sound so marginalizing. Basically, a group of super smart people live underground and try to solve the world's problems, but they actually end up creating a lot of them. The story follows Skylar, a new Knower, who has absolutely no idea what's going on.

I'm hoping this blog will actually go somewhere. All of my other blogs really haven't. So let's see.

-Nina :)

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