William Kent Krueger: A House Author Gets His Due.

There are various bruising anecdotes about William Kent Krueger's career arc as a novelist that will ring true to many a struggling writer: the early rejections by literary agents (there were 36); the paucity of crowds on those first bookstore appearances (where, he recounted, it wasn't unusual for the audience to consist of "the bookseller and the bookseller's cat"); the dreaded label as a midlist author. Recounting the backstory of Ordinary Grace - it has shipped more than 600,000 copies across all formats, according to Atria, making it Krueger's most successful book to date - Krueger revealed that it was the only time he briefly considered leaving S&S. [Extracted from the article]

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