Dig Deep: The Authors of the 2023 Amazon Canada First Novel Award Shortlist

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Every novelist is an explorer without a map; a miner without a headlamp; a wordsmith capable of more expertly crafted metaphors than these. Yet for every considered paragraph, painstaking outline, and precise choice of font, there are a million ways for even the most nimble author to get lost in the plot. Luckily, as many will tell you, that’s where the literary richness tends to lie.