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Edited Out, Part Two: Dance and the Dalliance in the Yoshiwara

Edited Out, Part Two: Dance and the Dalliance in the Yoshiwara

by Rebecca Copeland | Feb 1, 2023 | Mystery Fiction

Here’s another scene from The Kimono Tattoo draft that ended up on the cutting room floor.  Again, we have reference to Hiratsuka Raichō, but also to a controversial feminist painter, an ancient Japanese legend, and the politics of protest in postwar Japan. Why...
Edited Out, Part One: Hiratsuka Raichō and the Shiobara Incident

Edited Out, Part One: Hiratsuka Raichō and the Shiobara Incident

by Rebecca Copeland | Jan 18, 2023 | Mystery Fiction

We are very interested in reviewing the full manuscript of The Kimono Tattoo.  The word count is a little too long though.  Would you be willing to edit your book down to get closer to 100k words? When I first sent Melissa Carrigee of Brother Mockingbird Publishers my...

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