I am a new knitter, but an experienced novelist. It's only lately that I've begun to realize what my two favorite activities
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Revising Your Novel: Is Back Story Clogging Your Narrative Flow?
Most of us become novelists because we don't envision moments. We envision worlds. Novelists must fully inhabit those worlds to write about them.
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(Note to readers: If you just want to skip to the "how to" part of writing a novel synopsis, feel free to scroll down a few paragraphs! I know how
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Seeing your book cover for the first time is like waiting for that guy from Match.com to show up at the restaurant. You've laid out your expectations
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Most of us are cynical enough by now to see that life is all about branding, whether we're being bombarded by ads for colleges, books, cars, shampoos,
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My husband came upstairs last night sporting a satisfied smile. “Did you fix it?” I asked. “Yup.”
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Self-publishing is about as democratic as anything else, in the sense that 1) anyone is free to try it and 2) it takes money to make
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When I received my latest issue of Poets and Writers Magazine, I did what I always do: I put it in a special place on the nightstand, where I could
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My friend Melanie finally lured me into joining Twitter Nation by bribing me with scones and tea. “It's really easy, and it's great once you
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