Marketplace: Day in the Work Life: Creepy tales

Friday, October 27, 2006

Day in the Work Life: Creepy tales

On this week's A Day in the Work Life, our look at how folks trade their time for money, we get spooked by a horror novelist.

David Wellington has a BA and MFA in Creative Writing, but he says "I don't feel that all that education really amounted to too much. What really mattered was writing every day. I've been writing pretty much every day since I was 13 years old. I'm 35 now. So you can do the math." (David Wellington)

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