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Selgin, Peter.

179 ways to save a novel : matters of vital concern to fiction writers / by Peter Selgin. -- 1st ed.

    p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-58297-607-5 (alk. paper)

1. Fiction--Technique. 2. Fiction--Authorship. I. Title.

PN3365.S45 2010

808.3--dc22

2009053137

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