I have to reluctantly admit that I have an info dump chapter in the afor mentioned novel. It's there because a) it's word count, b) it's at a point in pacing where slack 'time' works, and c) the test readers actually *insist* that it should stay. They like that chapter. I don't know why. It's breaking almost all the rules about not doing info dumps, and I'd rather cut the chapter all together, but I was also taught to listen to the readers.