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A dozen essays on writers and their short stories, looking at how endings and beginnings work, at how changes to paragraphing can shift the focus of a story, how adaptations can change them, and other facets of short fiction.
Mike Smith
Mike Smith is the author and illustrator of a number of children's books and the winner of the Macmillan Prize for children's book illustration. He lives in Cambridge, England.
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