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After nearly a month and a half of no proofreading due to another self-imposed writing spree, I sent out a query to my contacts about upcoming jobs. Sadly, not much fiction is being done right now (or perhaps my contacts are shunning me!), but one contact finally proposed a novel. I don’t have the luxury to say no at the moment, as my bills are piling up, but still I didn’t agree to the job right away, compelled first to do a quick background check of the author and his previous books, something I do with all jobs, whether at other presses or at my own. This was a writer I wasn’t familiar with, but I found a review of his previous novel where Ruth Franklin compares it to W. G. Sebald’s Rings of Saturn in the very first line.

How can I resist?

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