: Re: How do I reconcile the difficulties of writing a roman à clef? I've just finished reading Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift and, in reading the reviews afterwards, discovered that it's a roman à

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Are you more concerned about whether or not you’re novel will anger real-life people (I.e the government & the Royal family) or if your publishers won’t agree with it?
Because I think that the genre is acceptable, even if the publishers tell you that there is a risk of being sued you can get an editor to change it slightly, but it’s very unlikely that those people you refer to will read the book themselves or see themselves in it

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