Authors, by their blogs, rally for an ill writer

Novelist Patry Francis, a Brockton native who was diagnosed last fall with an aggressive form of cancer, is unable to promote the release last week of her first novel's trade paperback edition - so hundreds of her fellow fiction writers are spreading the word for her. (Full article: 684 words)

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