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Deleted Scene: CONTAGION's original opening
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Deleted Scene: CONTAGION's original opening

A look at how the first scene of my sci-fi horror novel evolved from first draft

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Erin Bowman
May 16, 2023
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In honor of Contagion’s audiobook being on sale in a variety of places (iBooks, libro.fm, Kobo)1, I thought it would be fun to share a deleted scene from the novel.

“Deleted scene” isn’t quite the right term, because the scene we’re going to look at today still exists in the final book. But this scene evolved so much during drafting and revisions that it’…

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