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CL Stegall Presents…
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New chapters, release dates, and notes from the desk. Roughly twice a month, more when a book is landing. One click leaves the list and nothing is held hostage.
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What you get
Not a sampler and not a teaser chapter. A complete novella, a whole serial, and a working tool.
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Freebie one · The novella
Blood and Amber
A complete standalone story from the world of the Valensi Chronicles, yours in full the moment you join. It is the honest way to find out whether these books are for you, because it is the same voice at the same temperature, just shorter.
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Freebie two · The serial
WARLOCKS, free
Ten episodes of a psychological thriller, published Fridays and delivered to you the morning each one goes live. Jason Bourne meets Stranger Things by way of John le Carré. No paywall, no episode held back, no charge, ever.
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Freebie three · The tool
The Blind Spot Pass
A manuscript review tool that runs your whole draft in your own browser and hands back what your eye has stopped seeing. Free to use, no account. Subscribers also get The Revision Order, the one page that tells you which finding to fix first.
Run it on your draft
About the Blind Spot Pass
You cannot see your own manuscript, because you read your intention instead of your text. That is not a talent problem. It is what happens to anyone who has read the same pages forty times.
Drop in a .docx and it reads the whole book, not a sample chapter, and reports what it can actually prove: sentences you have written twice, facts that collide across two hundred pages, a thread you introduced and never came back to, the drafting scaffolding you meant to delete, and the places where the story stops happening and starts being summarized.
It runs entirely in your browser. Nothing uploads. There is no account, no server, and no AI reading your book. It also tells you plainly what it cannot find, because a tool that pretends to be an editor is worse than no tool.
It was built by a former acquiring editor, tested against a real developmental edit of my own work, and it re-derived twelve of the sixteen findings from that edit with no help. The four it missed are listed on the page.
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Free, no signup
The tool itself
Full manuscript, every finding, the whole pacing chart, all the quoted evidence. Run it as often as you like.
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Subscribers
The Revision Order
One page, free with the newsletter. The order to fix things in, ranked by damage against cost, so you never polish a scene you are about to cut.
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