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Iman Hariri-Kia
Dec 15, 2025
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“Would you still write books if there was never a guarantee that anyone would ever read them?”

The question stopped me in my tracks. It was late October, and I was on FaceTime with Katie, my long-distance best friend from college. I had just finished filling her in on Female Fantasy’s book launch, and subsequent two-week tour that followed. She’d been ex…

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