How Novel is Your Novel, and Why it Matters

LUANNE G. SMITH  by Sarah Raplee McDermed  My favorite novels are truly novel.Changelings of the story world. To paraphrase Shakespeare, I want to read tales that“have undergone a sea change, into something rich and strange.” Surprises are the nuts in the cookie.       A case in point is The Vine Witch by Luanne G. Smith. Thestory opens in the heroine’s point-of-view, which is, I dare say,