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Niches are nice, but…

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I started a new book a couple of days ago. It’s easy when you start ripping off plots on purpose instead of trying to reinvent the wheel and then finding out someone else did it before you. First Hamlet, now the New Testament. Next thing you know, I’ll be rewriting Moby Dick.

Now, I can write for a Mormon audience. Or I can write for the romance audience. Or I can write for the general fiction audience (whatever that is). Well. I wrote for all three, because that’s what I like.

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June 8th, 2008  
Tags: Catholicism, Dunham series, Magdalene, Mormon, Neal Stephenson, romance, The Proviso, Tom Wolfe, Umberto Eco, work-in-progress, writing



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