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Dear Killer

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Why Clean Air is a serial killer book that’s not about the serial killer

Sarah Blake
Mar 01, 2022
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When I began writing Clean Air, having a serial killer made sense as part of the world-building, in the background of Izabel’s life. But as Izabel’s story started to intertwine with the killer’s, and his story began to come to the foreground, I wasn’t sure I wanted to keep writing my book. Not the way I had imagined it.

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