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8th August

Exciting news: the Writing Mafia now has a page on Facebook! Go ahead and check it out! www.facebook.com/thewritingmafia/

5th August

We would like to sincerely apologize to the six people who first saw the post titled "Author's Guide To Playtime". It was not meant to be published today as it was not ready to be posted yet. 

21st May

Jo has finished the arduous rewrite of her first novel, Little Spell, exactly two years after she began it! She has been working on Little Spell for a total of more than four years and is finally almost happy with it. For the next couple of months, she'll mostly leave it alone, then pick it up to begin editing again in early August. In the meantime, she will plot and begin writing its sequel. 

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