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I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

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Jeffery Deaver
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: January 1
Crime Writer
Journalist
Lawyer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Glen Ellyn
Illinois
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