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Trained by reading hundreds of submissions, editors and agents often make their read/not-read decision on the first page. In a customarily formatted book manuscript with chapters starting about 1/3 of the way down the page (double-spaced, 1-inch margins, 12-point type), there are 16 or 17 lines on...
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“Lisbon Tales” Captures Various Angles of Portugal’s Capital, with a Focus on Salazar’s Dictatorship
Lisbon Tales is part of a long-running series of anthologies published by Oxford University Press seeking to collect some of the best writing set in or inspired by notable cities around the world and present it to an Anglophone audience. The addition of the Portuguese capital to this...
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Comic for writers: Best Birthday Gift
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Scapegoating Libraries for Declining Sales. Again.
Let’s be honest. With few exceptions, publishers don’t really know what drives most book sales, so the industry’s focus on chasing bestsellers and trends lends itself to an unscientific combination of last-click attribution, confirmation bias, and way too often, scapegoats. The...
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#BookADay: THE SEASON OF STYX MALONE by Kekla Magoon (Wendy Lamb Books)
--------------------- More info: Donalyn Miller's #BookADay Challenge - My #BookADay Archives (also see my visual #BookADay archive on Padlet, Flickr and Pinterest).
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The Watchlist: July 2019
Each month, Tobias Carroll shares a handful of recently released or forthcoming titles in translation that he’s especially excited about.   From Counterpoint Press | Inhabitation by Teru Miyamoto, translated from the Japanese by Roger K. Thomas | Fiction | 312 pages | ISBN...
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There Are No Wasted Words: Power to the Pantsers
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The Life-Changing Magic of Zeroing Non-Writing Commitments
At Chez O’Hara, we’re about to enter a new phase of life. My husband is retiring, leaving his workplace of thirty-five years. Our youngest is about to graduate and will probably receive a job offer in another town, making us empty-nesters. Even if we weren’t halfway through 2019, it would be a...
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Take Five: Barbara O’Neal and When We believed in Mermaids
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