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I know I'm always stealing--it's what writers do--take things and rework them into their creative process--like an article I read at Salon today about SEVERAL writers who used a Happy/Sad Foot sign out in LA and made them symbols (get it-- a sign ) in their novels--something F. Scott Fitzgerald about the whole thing--and even he was borrowing from T. S. Elliot. Sooooo. Here is something I've taken from Booklist. The original link was from Daniel where he posted at a listserve I'm on SCBWI-Illinois Desperately Seeking DeSario: A Real-Life Literary Mystery. Kraus, Daniel (author). First published May 1, 2011 ( Booklist ). In 1990, I read a novel called Sanctuary, by Joseph P. DeSario (Doubleday, 1989). Don’t bother looking it up—you won’t find anything. I plucked it from a paperback rack in Iowa so that I’d have something to read while our family made its annual five-hour haul to Grandpa’s farm. As a young Stephen King fan, I thought the machete on the co...