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Books

Late Bloom, signed copies, the best of the letters and a circle for writing your own story.

  • 28,400

    readers of Second Drafts
  • 212

    letters since 2022

Ways to read

  • Ruth Calder at her desk with a page under her hand
    Starts Nov 188 weeks · online · 12 places

    Memoir circle

    Write the story only you remember, with eleven other late starters.

    $240
  • A green cloth-bound book with a typewriter on its cover, under a writer's hands
    PaperbackShips worldwide

    Late Bloom: essays

    Twenty-two essays on beginning again. Paperback, 224 pages.

    $18

Before you order

Where do you ship the book?

Anywhere with a post office. Paperbacks go out the week you order, signed ones with a typed note inside.

Which e-book formats are there?

One file for every reader: it opens on a Kindle, a Kobo, a phone or a laptop.

Do I need to have written before to join the circle?

No. Most people in it have not. You bring a memory and a notebook; I bring the questions.

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Second Drafts

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