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The Rug Bazaar: A Chapbook
Two American women. Two Turkish men. A love duet. Ready to shop for a rug? Travel to Istanbul where rugs are sold and hearts are broken. Eat kebobs. Listen to the call to prayer. Gaze out over the lights of the Bosphorus. Most of all, discover how the baggage of the past affects everyones’ dreams […]
Ten Questions for Ben East
by Ben East in Ten Questions
In this column I’m asking subscribers to share their knowledge about writing, publishing, and marketing their books. I’m calling it “Ten Questions.” Thank you, Ben East, for letting readers know about your civil servants and ordinary citizens, trying to make sense of an Orwellian world. Your two approaches to writing–using an outline vs. letting the […]
Revising Fiction – Going Through the Door
by Marylee MacDonald in For Writers Doing Revisions
Revising fiction–deep revision–may require authors to expand scenes or add new ones. But how can any author know which scenes those are? We’re so close to our stories, it’s hard to have any perspective. And yet, we must provide our readers with a clear and accurate picture of our characters’ inner and outer journeys. We […]
Death of a Pen Name
by Peter Rendell in Book promotion
Whether to write under a pen name or under one’s own real name is a choice authors make early in a career. That choice can have unforeseen consequences. When Facebook blocked his pen name, author Peter Rendell had to relaunch his author platform and reevaluate his marketing strategy. Let’s give him a hand, because what […]