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Memoir

There's No Such Thing as "Fictionalized Memoir"

If I offered you a glass of red wine and you accepted, you’d expect red wine. If it was red wine vinegar and I acknowledged

May 5, 2019 No Comments

Writing Tips

Genre First, not as an Afterthought

I just returned from a writing conference where I heard a commonly held but very wrong belief among aspiring authors: “Don’t worry about genre. Your

April 30, 2019 No Comments

Writing Tips

What Your Word Count Tells Me Before I Read Your Manuscript

With no knowledge other than your manuscript’s word count and whether it’s fiction or nonfiction, I can with a high degree of accuracy predict three

April 8, 2019 No Comments

Guest Post

Screenwriting Techniques for Prose Writers (Guest Post by Script Doctor Lance Thompson)

Many disciplines of screenwriting can be applied to prose in all genres, from epic novels to short stories. We’ll discuss a few and how they

April 3, 2019 No Comments

Fiction

Client Etaf Rum's Debut Novel Is a New York Times Bestseller!

I’m very grateful and proud to have been part of this project and hope that A Woman Is No Man opens hearts and minds and

April 2, 2019 No Comments

Traditional Publishing

A Freelance Editor's Take on Gatekeepers, Literary Snobs, and Naysayers

You don’t have to look far for a blog post by an angry author or listen long at a writer’s event to hear someone complain

March 27, 2019 No Comments

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