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 - Policy: Lead authors produce raw chapters and immediately spawn parallel editorial review tasks for three specialized editors (developmental, line, continuity) plus roundtable debate before final polish.
 - Spawn three specialized editorial review tasks (emotional arc/pacing, prose/imagery, character voice/dialogue) with distinct focuses, followed by a dependent roundtable debate task, prior to polish step.
 - Chapter editorial reviews precede roundtable debates, with assignments as follows: Devon (developmental/structural), Lane (line/stylistic), Cora (continuity/thematic).
+- Initiate editorial pipeline for novel chapters by spawning three specialized reviewers (developmental, line, continuity) followed by a consensus roundtable debate prior to polish.