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February 25, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Paging Dr. Freud: How Did My Totally Made-Up Teen Novel End Up Being So Eerily Autobiographical? (a guest post by Cal Armistead)

  Thanks so much Karen, for allowing me to drop by your blog!  You left the topic of this guest blog up to me, so I thought I’d address something I find fascinating: how a totally made-up piece of fiction can end up being weirdly autobiographical.    “This compelling, suspenseful debut, a tough-love riff on […]

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