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Published: Fri, 06/27/25
Updated: Sat, 06/28/25
VOLUME 25, ISSUE 26 | june 27, 2025 BOOK REVIEWS How do you get book reviews? First, you ask. If someone reads your book and mentions it, ask for a…
Published: Fri, 06/27/25
Updated: Fri, 06/27/25
VOLUME 25, ISSUE 26 | june 27, 2025 BOOK REVIEWS How do you get book reviews? First, you ask. If someone reads your book and mentions it, ask for a…
Published: Mon, 06/23/25
Updated: Mon, 06/23/25
Good morning, If you have an unpublished novel (or two, or three) kicking around, submit your opening page to the Gutsy Great Novelist Page One Prize,…
Published: Fri, 06/20/25
Updated: Fri, 06/20/25
VOLUME 25, ISSUE 25 | june 20, 2025 WRITING RETREATS I'm back from my annual writing retreat in Maine where I help facilitate writers in their dreams…
Published: Fri, 06/13/25
Updated: Sat, 06/14/25
VOLUME 25, ISSUE 24 | june 13, 2025 WRITING RETREATS As you are reading this, I'm in the latter days of a week-long writer's retreat in Maine. I am a…
Published: Wed, 06/11/25
Updated: Wed, 06/11/25
A Great Contest for Your Self-Published or Hybrid-Published Book There are lots of contests for indie books. You can find them listed at the Alliance…
Published: Fri, 06/06/25
Updated: Fri, 06/06/25
VOLUME 25, ISSUE 23 | june 6, 2025 IT'S ON YOU - EMBRACE IT I follow tinybuddha.com periodically, and recently they posted this: All too often writers…
Published: Fri, 05/30/25
Updated: Fri, 05/30/25
VOLUME 25, ISSUE 22 | MAY 30, 2025 WHEN YOU CAN'T Many people have daily or weekly writing goals. A friend of mine who is a freelance writer and…
Published: Fri, 05/23/25
Updated: Fri, 05/23/25
VOLUME 25, ISSUE 21 | MAY 23, 2025 WHEN YOU AREN'T FEELING IT I started a new novel, and I'm five chapters into it. Love the premise. Like the…
Published: Fri, 05/16/25
Updated: Fri, 05/16/25
VOLUME 25, ISSUE 20 | MAY 16, 2025 WHEN YOU LOSE A GIG I was negotiating a small appearance for sometime downstream when something kept niggling at me…