Emily St. John Mandel shares dystopian craft secrets with authors
Bestselling novelist reveals techniques for creating unputdownable alternate-world narratives readers crave.
Original source — lithub.comhttps://lithub.com/emily-st-john-mandel-on-writing-a-novel-of-dystopian-counterlives/
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