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	The Linchpin Writer: Crafting Your Novel's Key Moments 4.41 avg rating — 241 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Adventures of Huey the Helicopter: Firefighting with Friends by Charles F Wilson, John Matthew Fox (Goodreads Author), Nadia Ronquillo (Illustrations) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Thanks so much to the 1,000 plus of you who preordered "The Linchpin Writer"!

I'm loving all the reviews I'm getting on Goodreads, Amazon, and Bookbub.

If you haven't picked up a copy yet, please do!

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“What a sad paradox, though Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze the path into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts to the same thing: they want to watch the great masters spar, but they have no interest in real combat, when the great masters struggle against that something, that something that terrifies us all, that something that cows us and spurs us on, amid blood and mortal wounds and stench.”
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