What Shakespeare Taught Me About Ash Wednesday

Lent What Shakespeare Taught Me About Ash Wednesday On the first day of Lent, I’m reminded of a love that “alters not” and “bears it out even to the edge of doom.” Paul J. Willis

Many years ago this winter, I published my first novel. That was a proud day for me. I had a sense of maybe having achieved something of lasting significance. The novel sold reasonably well, made it into a second and third reprinting, and was even brought out again in mass-market paperback. But three or four years after it first came out, my publisher told me the novel was going out of print. There were a few thousand copies left over, and the publisher would either destroy them or send them to ...

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