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Darrin J Friedman

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Darrin J. Friedman, a 4th generation Washingtonian, is a marketing and brand specialist who has spent ten years in sales management. He now lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two children. The Crazy in Babylon is his first published novel.

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Character development is a fascinating process if you want to do it in a way where the reader will give a damn about them. If you spend 80,000 or so words reading a book and you come through it going, meh, whatever -- that's probably a bad sign a doomsday scenario for any self-respecting writer. That's why most authors spend so much time researching and delving into their character's ba

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John Adams

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Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, #1)

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A Wrinkle in Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1-5)

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