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Podcast: The 7am Novelist
Episode: Aaron Hamburger on Hotel Cuba
Description: Aaron Hamburger discusses the first pages of his latest novel, Hotel Cuba, and how he knew his first fragment of a sentence, “Fish and oranges,” from the first draft. We talk about the importance of working with all five senses, the necessity of movement from the very first lines, how to work in backstory, and grabbing hold of your character’s yearning early to drive the book forward. Hamburger’s first pages can be found here.Help local bookstores and our authors by buying this book on Bookshop.Click here for the audio/video ve...