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Character-driven narratives.
Fiction, memoirs, and essays that bend cultures and genres.
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Paris Lost & Found:
Paris Lost & Found:
A Memoir of Love
Foreword Indies Prize
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Midland Authors Award (HM)
"The funniest book I've ever read that also made me cry."— Heather Stimmler, editor of Secrets of Paris
"The best travel book I've read all year."— Gillian Kendall, Perceptive Travel
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All posts →Craft · 11-Part Series
How to Land a Literary Agent
A fishing metaphor stretched to its breaking point — and beyond. Everything a serious writer needs to know about agents, from bait to keeper.
Read the series →Craft · Part 6 of 11
The Bait: Writing a Pitch
How to compress a novel into a few irresistible lines without losing what made it worth writing.
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About
Scott Dominic Carpenter
Emeritus professor of French literature and creative writing at Carleton College. Author of four books — fiction, memoir, and stories — that find the comic inside the tragic and the tragic inside the comic. Splits his time between St. Paul, Minnesota, and the 13th arrondissement.
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