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Louise Brown

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.

Louise Brown

Romantic

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The author carefully analyzed several short romantic novels to identify common patterns and then created a story based on that formula, believing it to be ideal. However, the book was turned down, which the author later saw as a fortunate outcome.

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