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From ‘Mona’s Eyes’ to ‘Theo of Golden’: This Year’s Surprise Hit Novels​

These days, most best sellers are written by authors with household names. Not these five breakout books.


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From ‘Mona’s Eyes’ to ‘Theo of Golden’: This Year’s Surprise Hit Novels

These days, most best sellers are written by authors with household names. Not these five breakout books.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com

If you can't access the link, let me know and I'll paste the article here.
 
Hi @Sedayne - I've popped the article into a PDF so you could read it. Attached. :)

I think there's some interesting take-a-ways from this on how the various authors approached things. One being the first author, Virginia Evans, had a habit of writing letters to people she admired, and wrote one to Ann Patchett who then gave her book a glowing review. Anyway I found lots of interesting stuff in the article. Enjoy! :)
 

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