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Book Broker—an interview with Charlotte Wenger
May 26, 2023
What are the hooks? Does it fill a hole in the market? Has it been done before?
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Story Skeleton—Cloud Cuckoo Land
May 26, 2023
There's a certain allure to a novel that intertwines disparate storylines, tying together seemingly unrelated narratives to form a compelling whole.
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Book Broker—an interview with Max Sinsheimer
May 24, 2023
I'd really love more journalistic nonfiction that weaves in a personal narrative.
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Pomodoro Power: Unlock Your Writing Potential One Tomato at a Time
May 20, 2023
The Pomodoro Technique is flexible, and you can adjust the session lengths and break times to suit your personal preferences and writing habits.
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Indie Insight with DV Berkom
May 18, 2023
"I waited much too long to invest in my work."
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Success Story with Nikki Vogel
May 15, 2023
"Keep writing. Keep writing. Keep writing. It’s the only way to reach that breakthrough moment."
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Story Skeleton—Sonny’s Blues
May 08, 2023
The climax ultimately addresses the question posed by the inciting incident: can the protagonist truly reconnect with his brother after learning about Sonny's arrest in the newspaper?
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Indie Insight with Chris Wimpress
April 30, 2023
"You can sell quite a lot of copies if you spend time working on your keywords on Amazon Advertising, making sure you’re in the market for hundreds, if not thousands, of keywords."
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Writing Around the Kids—podcast episode with Kate Lee
April 29, 2023
Our very own Kate Lee, award-winning kidlit author and editor, appeared on the Writing Around the Kids podcast.
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Success Story with Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt
April 28, 2023
To say I was devastated is a massive understatement. By this time, almost twenty years had passed since I’d written that first essay. So much of myself had gone into this story.
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Giveaway: a 5000-word critique by Michelle Barker (and more)
April 28, 2023
A free-to-enter giveaway by our friends over at Writers Helping Writers.
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Indie Insight with C.J. Adrien
April 18, 2023
"My books are a full-fledged business, so I have to run my author career like any other business."
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