Word: presold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...encouraging. Fledgling novelists tend to pour everything they know or have experienced into their first efforts. Replenishing bare cupboards is never easy, especially when new demands imposed by literary fame are added to the normal burdens of living and working. Then there is the problem of a presold audience, its expectations buoyed by an impressive debut. What, this group itches to know, can the sophomore writer do for an encore...