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Understanding Audiobook Production: An Interview with Rich Miller
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The Myth of Plan First and Write Later
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How to Grow an Email Newsletter Starting from Zero
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Voice Is How You Dance on the Page
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Don’t Focus on Marketing Tactics at the Expense of Strategy
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The Inner Struggle: How to Show a Character’s Repressed Emotions
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Building a Platform for Your Work When You’re Unpublished
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What Is Public Domain? (And Why 2019 Is a Big Year)
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The Tricky Issue of POV in Memoir
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Balancing Your Submission Budget for Literary Journals
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Feeling Envious of Other Writers? Here’s a Solution.
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Questions to Consider When Plotting a Scene
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Your No. 1 Secret Weapon: Writing Communities
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Story Planning Books: 3 Approaches to Consider
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Lit Mag Resources You Can’t Do Without
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Using BookBub Ads to Support Your Book Marketing
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How to Define and Describe Your Readership: A Confusing Issue for Nonfiction Book Proposals
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Feeling Stuck? Focus on a Single Sentence
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Switching Literary Agents: Two Agents Offer Advice
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Take Charge of Your Creative Life: The SWOT Analysis
