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Writing historical fiction: sometime journal of a New York City novelist
A guest blog from my friend Laurel Corona about FINDING EMILIE.
April 26, 2011
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Normally novelists struggle to find people to write blurbs for the back covers of their books but when I heard through the grapevine about Laurel's first novel, I e-mailed her agent and said, "I must read this novel and blurb it!" And so here we are a few years later and Laurel is my Read More
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