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In this week\\u2019s episode, Marissa chats with Alex Crespo about his debut, SAINT JUNIPER\\u2019S FOLLY, a queer YA haunted house mystery. Also discussed: using familiar settings to create fictional ones, using online resources like Pinterest and Zillow to do research on homes, doing deep dives to ensure details\\u2014even tiny ones\\u2014are accurate, what it means to be an aggressive plotter, using astrology archetypes to help create characters, writing chunks of chapters by character and then having to cobble them together, and so much more!
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