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The Imago Machine (10/10/19) - Revision as a Process

The Imago Machine (10/10/19) - Revision as a Process

in which you get a preview of A DESOLATION CALLED PEACE.

Arkady Martine
Oct 10, 2019
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The first time I revised a novel, my instructions on doing so boiled down to five bullet points and the command, go write the other 40k of the book, Arkady. To my chagrin and impressed horror, this was exactly the edit letter I needed — my editor at Tor, Devi Pillai, is annoyingly good at her job, and I indeed went off and wrote the other 40,000 words t…

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