The Joy Rise
A library of stories, notes + prompts for a more creative life, from an internationally bestselling author who was too scared to write for years.
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Notes to self, with the help of 1995 (opens the original)
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Dear reader, I’m writing this from my hotel room in Sydney, on Gadigal Country, where I’m four events in to the 18-event Australian tour for my new novel The World Beneath Her Feet. This is the biggest tour I’ve ever done for a book and I’m no superhuman: it’s mindblowingly magical, and mindblowingly exhausting. What keeps me going is the magic (along with broccoli, boundaries, and prioritising sleep). It’s also the goodwill in the team around me, and every team working so hard to bring every ev
Chapter 3: The World Beneath Her Feet (opens the original)
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Chapter 2: The World Beneath Her Feet (opens the original)
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Chapter 1: The World Beneath Her Feet (opens the original)
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Maggie Byrd's story begins here: The Prologue (opens the original)
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