Terry Pratchett, Jorge Luis Borges, and the usual sci-fi/fantasy classics (Asimov, Tolkien, etc.). But to be perfectly honest, the one writer that...
My bloody query. Oh, and the first chapter of the sequel to the book I'm writing the query for. I always snarked at the first chapters of sequel...
When I was younger I planned the entire plot of a novel in my head, down to the smallest detail before I began to write. Two pages in, my head...
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