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Here’s the thing: if you don’t subscribe to Publisher’s Weekly (and I assure you I’m not a shill for the man), you don’t get their daily email newsletters. Which means you don’t know the fascinating story behind Dan (DaVinci Code) Brown’s editor. Peripatetic? Can that even be applied to a guy who hasn’t hit forty? Unless, of course, he hitchhikes a lot. Okay, bad analogy. You get the idea. Editor Jason Kaufman sounds like a dream come true: a champion for the lowly writer, a guy who puts art above profit (yeah, now I’m making stuff up). Our man Dan will have another bestseller on the shelves soon, I promise you (hey, I was sucked in, too!). Note to those planning to query Kaufman — the DaVinci Clone has been done to death. Now if you have a fascinating story about Monet…

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