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Matt Hughes speaks about structuring genre novels

Our own Matt Hughes, author of Downshift, recently gave a talk on the basic structure of genre novels to a group of British Columbia writers. We thought you might enjoy Matt’s insights.

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Jan 2013
By Lorina StephensDownshift, Instructional Video, Matt HughesLeave a comment

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