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Posted by Carol Boles
YouÂ’ve spent months or maybe years writing your novel. YouÂ’ve presented it to your critique group, made revisions and had it professionally edited. After studying the market guide youÂ’ve found publishers you feel may be interested. Now, youÂ’re ready to package it up and send it off.
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Posted by Staci Stallings
Over the course of the past ten years, the inspirational book
market has exploded. Thanks to blockbusters...
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Posted by Stephen Earley Jordan, II
You send me an e-mail. You tell me youÂ’ve written over three hundred poems since you were 16 (in your teenage angst stage). You mention the novel youÂ’ve completed and itÂ’s really good (it really is!!!), and the novel-in-progress. You mention how the International Library of Poetry has published one of your poems. (But, whom havenÂ’t they published?)
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Posted by Michele Pariza Wacek
Here's a quick quiz:
1) When I see a see a sunrise, I'm moved to:
A. Compose a poem.
B. Try and capture the beauty with my paints and brush.
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Posted by Marvin Cloud
In large publishing houses, many manuscripts penned by first-time authors, never make it past the "first reader" who for all practical purposes is a gatekeeper of sorts. This person's job is to weed out manuscripts that do not fit certain established submission criteria. However, many never make it to the editor's desk, simply because they are badly disorganized and downright incoherent.
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Posted by Jennifer Turner
DIALOGUE TAGS
A study in Common Errors and Their Quick Fixes.
Verb and Subject
Incorrect:
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Posted by Tom
When you are looking for high-class information about sportswear, it'll be complex unscrambling quality advice from reckless sportswear suggestions and advice so it's astute to know ways of moderating the information offered to you.
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Posted by Kal Bishop
Beyond three and four act story structure, lies the HeroÂ’s Journey. The HeroÂ’s Journey is the most usable story structure consisting of at least 106 stages and the template for successful contemporary stories, from Star Wars to Al Pacino Scarface to The Incredibles to War of the Worlds to The Dirty Dozen to Midnight Cowboy.
The HeroÂ’s Journey is a valuable template because:
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