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Writing takes a toll on writers’ bodies. We slouch over our keyboards. We peer all day at screens. We can[…]
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Writing takes a toll on writers’ bodies. We slouch over our keyboards. We peer all day at screens. We can[…]
Read moreWhenever I start a new novel, I buy myself a fancy notebook. Then, I spend the next month filling in[…]
Read moreThis Aug. 12-13, Gotham Writers will launch a brand new Genre Fiction Conference, which will focus on writing and selling novels[…]
Read moreSubmitting to anthologies is a great way to showcase your work. You can find your story side-by-side with a story[…]
Read moreSome years ago, an editor rejected a story of mine because it contained a ghost. He had a policy of[…]
Read moreCozy mystery author S.A. Kazlo is a retired teacher living in upstate New York with her husband and two very[…]
Read moreThere’s an important scene in my new novel that takes place in an antiquarian bookstore. I was working on the[…]
Read moreI spent the last four days at the New York Write-to-Pitch Conference, helping a group of 15 fabulous authors write[…]
Read moreI had no idea there was such a thing as an Author’s Assistant until I ran across Kimberly Werntz. She[…]
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