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I tried to come up with a title that riffs on the word “gilded,” since Forged is set in the Gilded Age, and the story revolves around a Gatsby-like con artist, making the point that not all that glitters is gold. Everything I came up with was too clunky, and it was my husband who suggested the alternative we wound up using. “Forged” works well in all its connotations: The protagonist is herself a counterfeit, but she’s also self-invented; she has forged and formed herself in a harsh world. She uses forgery as a tool to make her millions, and she forges forward through adversity. Finally, Andrew Carnegie, the steel magnate, plays a small but vital role in the story.
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At the beginning of my novel, the protagonist’s name is Fanny Bartlett, an...[read on]
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