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Book Broker—an interview with Lisa Hagan
June 03, 2021
Do your homework; there are submission guidelines available on the internet and on the agents' websites. Everything is formulaic and easy to follow.
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How to Use the Romance Formula to Develop Friendships, Partnerships, and Rivalries
June 02, 2021
Characters have arcs as they learn, adapt, and change over the course of a narrative. The same goes for relationships.
- On the craft
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Success Story with Samara Parish
May 27, 2021
I didn’t understand structure; I hadn’t even heard of goal, motivation, and conflict.
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Free narrative assessment?
May 25, 2021
The Darling Axe has an intern!
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Book Broker – an interview with Laura Gross
May 13, 2021
With a fiction submission, it is imperative that I am taken in by the tone, a simple and intelligent self-presentation.
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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?
- Contest updates
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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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