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What Gets A Book To The Top Of The Bestseller List?

The business of books is big business with 172,000 new titles released in 2005 and sales in the United States of about $40 billion. But what makes a book successful? Are there any common characteristics that can spur on sales? As part of the research...

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Catholics Need To Take a Second Look at Morality

Catholics Need To Take a Second Look at Morality by: Peter Mennona, Jr. According to CNN, Catholics voted for President Bush over Senator John Kerry by a 51 to 48 percent margin. Hence, Catholics voted for a Born Again Methodist over a Catholic ...

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Does Your Story Have A Theme?

Does Your Story Have A Theme? by: Nick Vernon Creative Writing Tips – It should. A theme is a one-line explanation of your story.. Every story should have one because our stories are about something. When I say should, I mean that this isn...

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If The Viewpoint Character Is A Secondary Character, Have You Established Who He is?

If The Viewpoint Character Is A Secondary Character, Have You Established Who He is? by: Nick Vernon Creative Writing Tips – I have said above that if a secondary character tells the story of the main character, then the spotlight should be ke...

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Jamaican Overdrive - LDC's and LCD's

OverDrive - an e-commerce, software conversion and e-publishing applications leader - has just expanded an e-book technology centre by adding 200 e-book editors. This happened in Montego Bay, Jamaica - one of the less privileged spots on earth. The c...

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Basic Writing Tips – Some Controversial, All Correct

Basic Writing Tips – Some Controversial, All Correct by: David Clapham As a previous article (“Making Better Word Choices – 4 Examples”) explained, writers can take steps to prevent simple, and common, errors from degrading their writing...

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How to Pitch a Story

How to Pitch a Story by: Elizabeth Kirwin How to Pitch a Story Ever wonder why we refer to convincing an editor a story is worthy by “pitching a story?” I have. I’m a baseball enthusiast, and it makes a lot of sense to me. When the editor ...

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How Can I Determine If My Readers Will Understand What I Write?

Your writing skills may be superb, but what if your readers can't understand your text? Technically, your readers may have problems with your document's "readability," but what truly counts is the document's "understandability." Most a...

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The Phantoms of Six Mile Road

The Phantoms of Six Mile Road by: David L. Russell I was going through a box of personal belongings a couple of weeks ago, when I stumbled across some pictures of my 1978 high school graduation. My daughter Vonnie laughed at those pictures and a...

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Spice Up Your Presentation with Quotations

Add one or a few quotations to your presentation to make it more entertaining and insightful. Your quotation might spur your listeners to think or laugh. Sprinkle lightly like pepper. Use a quotation that emphasizes or clarifies your message. Here a...

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