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Lisa Safran

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http://www.cutpastegone.com

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Young Adult, Fiction, Children's

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Lisa Safran has always had a kooky imagination. Ever since she was little, she liked to make up stories and characters, so a pair of scissors like the ones in her debut young adult novel CUT PASTE GONE would have come in handy. Lisa grew up in an apartment building, much like Mona's, but today lives in a house with her husband and daughter. They often spot deer walking across the lawn dropping pish-posh along the way. ...more

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When you're a writer, and you're working on a book, you dance. You edit to death, contemplating if the word "a" is stronger than "the" or if your first sentence is really good enough to grab attention. You spend hours reading over what you've written, tinkering with prepositions and not adding one speck of new content to the manuscript. You change the font to see if that will increase the total nu Read more of this blog post »

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She's Up to No Good

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