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Podcast: The 7am Novelist
Episode: Rachel Kadish on The Weight of Ink
Description: Rachel Kadish discusses the first pages of her latest novel, The Weight of Ink, how she followed the voice in her first lines to discover her story, the care she took in introducing the reader to a 17th-century voice and point of view (hint: she did it in small pieces), and the importance of “scaffolding” in your early pages and letting that scaffolding go as you revise to find the heart of your beginning and your book.Kadish’s first pages can be found here.Help local bookstores and our authors by buying this book on Boo...