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The First Page Challenge is now live!
May 12, 2021

Our judge, Michelle Barker, will be asking herself one question:

how likely am I to turn this page and keep reading?
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Book Broker – an interview with Elizabeth K. Kracht
May 12, 2021
Most manuscripts that come across my desk are about four revisions from being ready for representation.
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Success Story with Stephenia H. McGee
May 11, 2021
For anyone looking to indie publish (as a platform to seek traditional publishing or otherwise), I always give the same advice. Treat indie publishing as both a business and a professional representation of you as an author.
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Editor profile: Kate Lee
May 06, 2021
I love helping other writers as a developmental editor—work I’ve been doing on a freelance basis for around fifteen years.
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Success Story with Paula Greenlees
May 04, 2021
Without the support of other like-minded writers I would most certainly have given up.
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Book Broker – an interview with Jeff Ourvan
April 29, 2021
I look for page-turning narratives in which the dynamic between the protagonist and the plot pumps like a piston: events cause the protagonist to change; the changed protagonist alters the trajectory of the story.
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Success Story with Louise Fein
April 26, 2021
Don’t be put off by negative statistics, and people saying, you can’t.
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Free webinar—Setting the Stage (World-building for all genres)
April 21, 2021
Join Darling Axe senior editors Michelle Barker and David Brown for a free 90-minute webinar on the importance of setting in fiction.
- On the craft
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Success Story with R.J. Hoffmann
April 20, 2021
The dream didn’t die. It festered, as dreams will.
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Axe to Grind 2021 – Contest Results
April 19, 2021
Kudos to everyone who submitted their work. It was a pleasure to read so many great submissions.
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Axe to Grind 2021—3rd place winner: "You've Matched"
April 19, 2021
“Am I what you expected?” She twirled like a child at a beauty pageant. “You never can tell with online profiles, can you?”
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Axe to Grind 2021—1st place winner: "Fair Warning"
April 17, 2021
The dogs should’ve warned her, but Tommy’s scent is still familiar after all this time.
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