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Kit Frick
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Hold That Train! Writing a Sliding-Doors Thriller
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5 YA Thrillers about Vacations Gone Horribly Wrong
Enjoy your staycation with these novels in which "an initially alluring getaway veers drastically sideways"
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Highly Unreliable and Morally Ambiguous Narrators
"[U]nreliable narration can be enormously successful when the author’s use of misdirection or withholding is tied expressly to the character’s experience, behavior, and/or worldview."
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| April 28, 2022
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