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How Do Novelists Contend with March 2020?

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Sean deLone
May 09, 2024
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A benefit of being an editor is watching a lot of talented creative people contend with the same set of parameters and see their different ways of dealing with them. Certain types of books or themes or settings become popular and then comes a plethora of books using the same conventions. For example, we’ve probably come close to seeing every way that WW…

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