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They’re created, carved and chiseled thanks to unique knowledge of the market and exclusive insight into commercial viability.Here’s the thing about these types of stories, they’re wholly implausible, completely unrealistic and don’t resemble anything even close to real life. Speculating on why publishers rejected it, he wonders whether it was deemed too lurid at the time, especially since Steinbeck was then an unknown author. It is an earlier version of a published story, The Vigilante, based on an actual lynching that took place in San Jose in 1933 of two men accused of kidnapping and murdering a local resident.

Combine the key elements of storytelling and see theme, character, dramatic irony, narrative arc, and sub-plots working in harmony for a satisfying ending. The book begins with Mallory and her roommate Paige settling into their new home in NYC after graduating from Yale. We suggest you allow 1–2 months for The Classic, 3 months for The Ninety Day Novel, and the remainder of your year, 6 months or more, for The Big Edit.

Peter Carey rounds off our list of literary milestones with a Booker prize-winning tour-de-force examining the life and times of Australia’s infamous antihero, Ned Kelly. A guilty pleasure it may be, but it is impossible to overlook the enduring influence of a tale that helped to define the jazz age.

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