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When I was writing Blind Search, the publisher didn’t like the working title (which was so bad I’ve forgotten it). So I came up with a list of 100 titles I could live with. The publisher liked Blind Search, and the editorial director liked The Hiding Place. So my editor told me, “This novel will be called Blind Search, but your next novel will be called The Hiding Place.” So I began plotting the story knowing it would be called The Hiding Place, but without knowing why. I had to write the book to find out. In retrospect, it seems inevitable, but it didn’t seem that way when I started.
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My Book, The Movie: A Borrowing of Bones.
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Writers Read: Paula Munier (October 2019).
My Book, The Movie: Blind Search.
The Page 69 Test: Blind Search.
My Book, The Movie: The Hiding Place.
The Page 69 Test: The Hiding Place.
Q&A with Paula Munier.
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