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Why a Novel and Why Right Now?

I am, as I said in my last post, giving my level best to novel writing these days. Someone asked me recently what made me make this shift and I thought I’d talk about it (though calling it a “shift” feels a bit more final than I feel comfortable with).

The shift began about 30 years ago, when I read my first young adult literary novel. The YA fiction of …