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Podcast: The 7am Novelist
Episode: Jasmin Hakes on Hula
Description: First pages are impossible… so we’re hearing from authors about how they got them right. In this episode, Jasmin Hakes discusses the first pages of her debut novel, Hula, and how she structured the novel using traditional storytelling techniques from her native island. We also talk about the power of the royal we, addressing the reader directly and therefore challenging them, how to make summary work, and how to manage the revision process with agents and editors who might not know your novel’s most important contextual details in terms of place, culture, and time. Hakes...