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The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to
Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence
by Lisa Cron
Copyright 2012 by Lisa Cron
Published in the United States by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group,
a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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