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Fiction and The Cyclops Queen
22 Aug 2015

Fiction and The Cyclops Queen

by John Harding | posted in: Writer's notebook | 0

Non-fiction readers frequently look down on historical fiction as a mongrel breed that takes too many liberties with the truth. If it’s not well done or gets important facts wrong, it can indeed be hard to defend. But writers of … Continued

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