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  • The Mentor Effect: BRMCWC And Finding My Literary Agent Wednesday, December 6th, 2017     Start the Conversation

    By Emily H. Jeffries, @emilyhjeffries   At age 28, I quit my job as an upper school theology teacher to write books. For a decade, I had studied theology and gained teaching experience. After graduate school, I had landed the perfect teaching job with a small private school in my…

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