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Writing Tips: How to Write A Book Jacket Cover

Even the greatest story on the shelf in a bookstore can't sell itself without eye-catching packaging. It's one of the saddest truth's in book sales. Book marketing is a growing business, and most publishers have staff devoted to book d...

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Tips from Robert Ludlum on writing a compelling thriller

Based on a two-hour interview with the late Robert Ludlum, author of some of the world's best selling novels of international intrigue. Q. How did your career in writing begin? Ludlum: When I got out of college in 1952, I wanted to be an actor...

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Dream Job Crisis

Americans are working, women are out of the house, so mission accomplished? No, not exactly. Seventy-five percent of Americans are working in a field they don’t like. Not only does that mean that work quality suffers, but that quality of life plumm...

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Not Your Grandma’s Grammar

Not Your Grandma’s GrammarAs if it isn’t enough that computers have influenced just about every area of our lives, you’d think that something as sacred as the English language would remain immune to technology’s pressures. Not so. You may not...

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Avoid Crafty Traps in Essay Writing

Avoid Crafty Traps in Essay Writing by: Linda Correli Hidden pitfalls are on watch for your paper success in every paragraph of the essay you write. They are notorious misprints, insidious misspellings and numerous stylistic, syntax and format e...

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You Don't Need to be Perfect, But Your Writing Does

How to Proofread, Edit and Fact-Check Your Own Work Having written since I was a kid, I've met many authors, writers and journalists along the way. While we don't all fit the stereotype of the robed, sleepless, alcoholic writer hunched ove...

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Take My Publisher, Please!

Take My Publisher, Please! by: Ed Williams An actual phone conversation I had earlier today.... “Hello, is this Ed?” “Uh, yes it is.” “Ed Williams, the writer guy?” “Uh, yeah, Ed Williams the writer guy.” “How are you? My name ...

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Pairs/Groups Of Words Often Confused - Part 5 of 6

s/Groups Of Words Often Confused - Part 5 of 6 by: Laraine Anne BarkerPASSED, PASTPassed is the past tense of pass. Past means a time that has gone. "Time passed and we all forgot the incident." "In times past it was the custom for women to wea...

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Pairs/Groups Of Words Often Confused - Part 2 of 6

s/Groups Of Words Often Confused - Part 2 of 6 by: Laraine Anne BarkerBAITED, BATEDBaited usually refers to traps or snares. When the reference is to someone who is hardly daring to breathe, the correct word is always bated:"She watched with bat...

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PUT IT IN WRITING!

Ever been asked to 'Put it in Writing.'? Sure, you have. Didyou immediately go to your desk and effortlessly record yourthoughts and suggestions? Or, perhaps, you struggled andanguished? For most folks, producing useful, credible andappropr...

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