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Sally Green's debut novel was tipped to be great before it was even published.
Several filmmakers have felt similarly transported by reading the book, and "Golf in the Kingdom" has been optioned or in development since before it was even published.
Lee had written more than 100 pages of her second novel, "The Long Goodbye," before "To Kill a Mockingbird" was even published in 1960.
But it did mean that before the first volume was even published, Min Kamp had become, to put it mildly, a talking point.
Oprah Winfrey restarted her book club on the strength of the book and Reese Witherspoon optioned it for film before it was even published.
He did so a full month before the prize was due to be officially announced, and, in fact, a week before the shortlist was even published.
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A number of them were even published as supplements in children's magazines, and I remember devouring them eagerly.
Some of the encrypted messages were even published in Southern newspapers with rewards offered to anyone who could decode them.
This means that novels, which can take years to write, face the risk of becoming irrelevant before they're even published.
In 2012, a then 34 year-old American young-adult novelist, John Green, is at the top of the Amazon book charts, before his book, The Fault in Our Stars, is even published.
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