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Author · Storyteller
Erin Cole
@erincole
Writer interested in historical fiction, storytelling and all the strange practical decisions involved in turning drafts into books.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Erin Cole writes across historical fiction and mystery, with a particular interest in character, atmosphere, revision and the details that turn a manuscript into a finished book.
Good fiction leaves a little space for the reader.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Erin Cole
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Salt Ledger
In 1892 Aberdeen, a widowed ledger clerk is sent to sort the papers of a dead shipping family and finds an account book that seems to record more than cargo, debts, and names. As she follows the trail through quays, counting houses, and old loyalties, she uncovers a quiet fraud tied to a disappearance everyone in the city has learned not to mention.
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Draft progress
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