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Podcast: The 7am Novelist
Episode: Sara Johnson Allen on Down Here We Come Up
Description: Sara Johnson Allen discusses the first pages of her debut novel, Down Here We Come Up, and her long road to publication. We talk about the power of the first pages in keeping you going, the importance of place description and how to make it move, how to find the balance between your front story and larger back story, and why it’s often necessary to put a book aside to understand it fully enough to revise.Allen’s first pages can be found here.Help local bookstores and our authors by buying this book on B...