HeyJaredBefore the Bestseller
Essays and musings on being a woman and writing a novel. Exploring how conflicting experiences and traits affect us. Compassion, empathy and kindness are the result of evolution; they have a purpose and so do we.
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On Accepting Myself, Disability and All (opens the original)
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Beyond the Bestseller is a collection of minimally edited essays and poems; you’re receiving it because at some point in the recent(ish) past, you signed up to get email updates from me, Lisa Kissane, for which I thank you profusely. I’m using Substack as my email client now, which might look a little different from when you originally signed up.These essays range in topic from being a woman without biological children, to aspiring to be a novelist, to living with chronic pain and illness. You c
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