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The Power of Paperbacks: 5 Myths Debunked About Using KDP for Paperbacks By Aria Grace

Although many readers today have grown accustomed to reading digital copies of their favorite novels, the urge to hold paper in their hands and smell the pages is something readers from around the world will always cherish. Whether it’s to reminisce about reading as a child or to escape from the world of electronics, there …

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Loglines – Essential if Querying or Self-Publishingby Laura Drake

A logline is important – for a query, of course, but it’s a wonderful start to a back cover blurb, if you’re self-publishing as well. It’s also a quick way to explain when someone asks what your book is about. But I like it for another reason. It helps me get into a marketing frame …

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WRITE NOW: Get Published, or Get Left Behind by Zetta Brown

We are almost twenty years into the twenty-first century. What are you waiting for? For the time to be right? Well, the time is now. It is time for you to stop subjecting your writing to a twentieth-century time frame. If you are serious with your dream/wish/goal of being a published author, you need to …

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Types of Character Arcs By Meg LaTorre

One of the biggest draws to stories—of any medium—are characters. So many of us want to follow the journeys of individual characters whose personalities or situations we find compelling. The biggest disappointment I often have at the end of a book, television show, or movie is a lack of character growth or change at the …