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This summer has been one of great loss and grief. Not only did I suffer the betrayal of a dear friend, but I also lost two of my three doghters to death. They were old, 14 and 15 years old, but they were my baby girls just the same. So my little family was cut
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I know I haven’t done an Emerging Author Spotlight in awhile, and I’m still not really doing one today. This amazing woman, while an emerging author as well, is a fine freelance editor. I can personally (& highly) recommend her, as she edited my book Publishing & Marketing Realities for the Emerging Author. From her
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In the writing business, we often get conflicting advice from our readers, other writers, and industry professionals like agents and editors. Agents advise us to write what’s in our hearts, but they can only sell what the editors want. The editors want more of what is already selling, limiting their risk in this fast-changing business.
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You’ve just gotten your first speculative fiction work published, and now you need to get it out there to potential readers. Whether you are self-published, published by an independent press, or published in New York, marketing your book is up to you. Since you are a writer of speculative fiction (SciFi/Fantasy, or SFF), you have
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In 2009, Colleen Lindsay wrote a blog about what Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse could teach novelists about hooking readers. Good article. Really true, too. The art of storytelling has changed over the years. Our attention spans, as a collective audience, have shortened. Colleen’s post is mostly about how Dollhouse took a few episodes (like seven, according
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