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poet

Before I wrote historical fiction and romance I wrote poetry, a genre of big ideas expressed in very few words. As a poet, you don’t have the luxury of long explanations or lines of description. You hit the reader fast and hard with the most evocative language you can string together. While novels allow authors to use paragraphs to help them describe a character, emotion or setting, there are times in every story when a single line is all that can be spared. Perhaps it’s the appearance of a minor character or the heroine’s first impression of a manor house. Whatever it is, now that the space i