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Free HOOK Edit: To begin with, Marlowe was dead—
by Michael Wright

March 28, 2015March 23, 2015 Victoria

We’re doing #5 in my 2009 series of free HOOK Edit Specials today: readers sent me the first 150 words of their novels, and I did a quick Developmental Edit on each one, followed by a Copy & Line Edit. (You can still find all these Sample Edits under my Editing Services.)

This one is called To begin with, Marlowe was dead, by Michael Wright

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