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Backing into a Story—an Encounter with “The Bleaks”

Backing into a Story—an Encounter with “The Bleaks”

by Rebecca Copeland | Jul 21, 2021 | Mystery Fiction

Never having written a mystery novel, or any novel, I didn’t know where to start. A man I had been dating—an architect and not a writer—told me to write the backstories to my characters. It was great advice! And so I spent the early days of my writer’s...

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