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The Benefit of Making Your Characters Sick

The Benefit of Making Your Characters Sick

What does it change in someone who must look into the land of the well from the land of the sick? How illness and disability creates a more compelling character

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Mary Carroll Moore
Mar 15, 2024
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Only a month until my third novel, Last Bets, is published on April 21. Publisher’s Weekly/Booklife called it a “beautifully wrought story of two women artists outrunning their demons." You can pre-order a copy today, and this will help me so much in every way! I know you’ll love the story—thank you for your support of my writing.

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