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What Makes a Great Novel Excerpt?

Masters Review contest reader offers advice on how to find, edit and shape novel excerpts for lit mag submissions

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B. B. Garin
Mar 24, 2022
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B. B. Garin's work has appeared in Palooka, freeze frame fiction, 3rd Wednesday, Crack the Spine, Inklette and more. She is a prose reader and blog contributor for The Masters Review. Follow her on Twitter @bb_garin.
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