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Category Archives: Deidre Knight

In praise of Holly Blanck

By Leigh Evans | Published August 10, 2012

I really hated being edited. I fumed, I sulked, I muttered darkly. I thought my editor, Holly Blanck, was wrong, wrong, wrong. How on earth could she pronounce the book as”wonderful” then tell me it needed major surgery? How could she [...]

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What does hell look like?

By Leigh Evans | Published May 29, 2012

Ladies and Gentlemen–I present to you, my version of Hell. Finished? Okay, now I’ll explain. I am one of the lucky ones. My first novel won me a contest which led to Deidre Knight offering me representation. Then–Holy Hannah!–what followed [...]

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The Shower

By Leigh Evans | Published May 16, 2012

It used to be I couldn’t take a shower without someone banging on the bathroom door. Even getting out of our shower was complicated–I had to knock on the acrylic glass door to give the snoozing short fat black dog a heads-up before [...]

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