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Author · Storyteller
Joel Barlow
@joelbarlow
Young Adult writer interested in character, atmosphere and the decisions that make stories difficult to forget.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Joel Barlow is a young adult writer interested in how stories work, how readers respond to them and how technology is changing the way writers create and publish.
Readers notice more than writers sometimes give them credit for.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Joel Barlow
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Currently creating
First draft
The Salt Archive
In a coastal city where memories can be stored in salt and traded like contraband, seventeen-year-old Mara Venn works in her uncle’s archive cleaning other people’s grief out of broken vials. When she finds a memory that proves her missing brother was taken by the city’s ruling guild, she has to decide whether to keep surviving quietly or break open the system that keeps everyone obedient. The closer she gets to the truth, the more she learns the archive was built on lies that still control the living.
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