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“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all, I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” —Dame Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie… what a…
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In: Writers & Editors
I love first-time authors.
Yes, their manuscripts are mostly wordy, contain point-of-view issues, and tend to take the reader by the hand in over-explaining emotions, actions, and situations.
But their enthusiasm and eagerness, their courage to open themselves up to me, the first one to see…
In: Book Reviews
Dan Klefstad’s ‘Fiona’s Guardians’ contain dark, deviously twisted characters, not your everyday events, and are written in an engaging and humorous writing style — I love it!
Fiona’s Guardians
What if you were dying to make money — real money?! What if you were offered the job of a…
In: Insights for Authors
Creating an author brand is the perfect way for you to present yourself to your readership and to build a following. Your brand is your authenticity — your voice — your identity as an author. Stay true to yourself, your writings, and who you are.
Writing…
In: Book Reviews
As someone who owns Stephen King’s On Writing, who loved the series, Haven (based on the short story, ‘The Colorado Kid’), reading more of Stephen King’s prose was long overdue. I started with this little gem and I loved it. You can feel the tension building on…
In: Book Reviews
The Lockdown Letters — bonkers correspondence to and from U.K. punk artists during 2020 by Derek & Dave Philpott
The Book & The Authors
For over a decade, ‘Team Philpott’, as their followers fondly refer to them, have been on a quite bonkers crusade, writing old-fashioned letters to punk, pop and rock…
