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Do Your Family and Friends Not Understand the Publishing World?
If I had a nickel for every time someone said to me, “When is your book coming out?” I’d be a rich woman. When I hang out with certain friends or family members, they want to know when they’ll see my...
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Green in 2008, Publishing a Novel
I was naïve. I admit it, begrudgingly, but I do. In May 2008, I had begun to seriously write my novel. It was the second year of my master’s program—the year I dedicated to the writing (as opposed...
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New York Pitch Conference Review
In 2008, I decided to give myself an early birthday present, my first writers conference. This was a big deal for me. I was a master’s student at NYU, pursuing a degree in creative writing and...
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Book Country, Will You Be Discovered?
Book Country is an active community for writers, readers and experts of genre fiction. Writers upload a small portion of their work to be reviewed by their Book Country peers. Writers upload novel...
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After Submitting to an Agent or Editor …
You submitted your manuscript to an agent or editor upon her/his request. To reach this moment is a major victory. Now you’re in for the waiting game. You hope the agent or editor will be so...
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To Take Editing Advice or …
Editing advice can be hard to hear, especially if you’re a beginning writer. I remember back in the day when I thought I knew everything about writing (later discovering that I still have a lot to...
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3 Things You Never Knew to Put in Your Query
In the blog post How to Write the Best Query Possible, I discussed the basics of how to write a standout query letter to agents and editors. But did you know there are three key things you must...
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Can You Write a Book in a Weekend?
It sounds enticing. It certainly sounds wonderful to me, as I’ve spent three and a half years writing my novel (and conducted another eight years of research, including a Master’s degree). But I’m...
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How Author Salon is Helping My Manuscript
Like most writers, I started out protective of my manuscript. I thought I knew best from title to craft to concept. It took me a lot of tough love in the publishing world to realize I needed a lot of...
View ArticleAre You Sabotaging Your Book’s Success? First Teleseminar April 5
Hi Everyone! I’m truly excited to introduce Pencey X Pages’ first teleseminar. It’s completely free, just the cost of a long distance call, or you can listen in via the web. Here is all the...
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