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2025
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Summary: Introduces FOR THE WIN, a column highlighting positive world developments. Also public speaking tips for introverts, book gift recommendations from professional booksellers, and introduces the author's Storyline Sessions masterclasses and science fiction novels.
Links:The Golden Age of Protest is Now
Los Angeles will nearly double recycled water for 500,000 residentsPower surge: law changes could soon bring balcony solar to millions across US
Matthew McConaughey, Michael Caine Partner With ElevenLabs to Produce AI Replicas of Their Voices
The Storyline Sessions YouTube Channel
Buy my books (link to my author website)
Falling in Love with Books, featuring Pat Walker of Vroman’s Bookstore
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Summary: Lee promotes his third book LIBERATION, reassuring readers they can understand it without reading the previous two books in the series. He explains writing techniques that make later books accessible, like introducing new characters who need backstory or using memory triggers. The newsletter also features THE FUTURE LAB"interview with Eiren Caffall about her climate fiction novel All the Water in the World, which resonated with Lee during his recent Palisades fire evacuation.
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