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Priya Parmar

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Priya Parmar is a former dramaturg and freelance editor and hold degrees in literature and theatre. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Edinburgh.

Her first historical fiction novel, EXIT THE ACTRESS is being published on February 1, 2011 by Touchstone/Simon and Schuster and she is currently living in London and working on her second, set in WWI.

When not researching in the UK, She is at home in Hawaii writing and reading everything and she is always looking for new recommendations!

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Nell in French

So, writers procrastinate. When I am noodling around a sentence, trying to make it fit, I lift the pieces and try them one way and then another and then I start over and then I sometimes get frustrated and wander off and google random, vaguely related and therefore somewhat justifiable, random stuff. How is Nell doing on Amazon? Where were the bus stops on Picadilly in 1906? When did the Savoy... read more »

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Exit the Actress

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