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      <image:caption>Writing Green River Saga with Rick O'Shea was equally invigorating and challenging. The process took seven years, which now seems insane, but we faced three major difficulties: agreeing on the arc of the main characters; securing the necessary historical material, including maps; and merging our different writing styles into as singular a narrative voice as we could. The expectation of the next image, symbol, metaphor; the next, more incisive path into the mind of Jeremiah, my main character; the pull of delving deeper into what this novel could be; all led me from sentence to sentence, paragraph to paragraph, chapter to chapter. It was infectious!</image:caption>
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