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On Backstory in Penny Dreadful and Breaking Bad

Daniel José Older

Last week, I started vlogging on YouTube. The first video is a brief talk about the process of editing my forthcoming Young Adult novel from Scholastic, Shadowshaper.

In the latest video, I give a brief discussion on storycraft by discussing two things that the television shows Penny Dreadful and Breaking Bad get right when it comes to backstory.

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Daniel José Older

Daniel José Older is the author of the Bone Street Rumba Urban Fantasy series from Penguin’s Roc Books and the Young Adult novel Shadowshaper (Scholastic’s Arthur A. Levine Books, 2015). His first collection of short stories, Salsa Nocturna and the Locus and World Fantasy nominated anthology Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, which he co-edited, are available from Crossed Genres Publications. You can find Daniel's thoughts on writing, read dispatches from his decade-long career as an NYC paramedic and hear his music at ghoststar.net/ and @djolder on twitter and youtube.

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