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Deleted Scene – Jesse is Grouchy in the Morning

Deleted Scene – Jesse is Grouchy in the Morning 

(This scene took place on Clair’s original walk to school, where she planned to confront Libby about using Improvement. Instead she ends up confronting Jesse, not knowing that today is the anniversary of his mother’s death.) The crowd was becoming louder. An eye-in-the-sky drone was watching, in case things turned ugly. No one liked being […]

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Deleted Scenes – The Beginning(s)

Deleted Scenes – The Beginning(s) 

Twinmaker went through a lot of drafts. I have nineteen different files stashed away, plus three different openings, three different endings, and numerous alternate takes on individual chapters. Characters came and went, names changed, themes rose to the surface or were trimmed back . . . yet somehow, through it all, the book stayed the […]

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