Introducing Launch
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Three out of five people say they dream of writing a book. Chances are you’re one of them.  But what does it take to actually go from dream to launch?  Screenwriter John August wants to find out. After writing hit films like Big Fish, Go, and Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, he did something that he knew nothing about: he wrote a middle-grade novel and started recording his conversations with everyone he talked to about it. What will happen next? No idea. This is Launch. 
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