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If you haven’t read your manuscript, fiction or nonfiction, at least three-to-five times, you’re not ready to publish it yet.…

Hope and Encouragement for Troubled Times

Times like these need encouraging words. Something…anything to hang onto when you feel like you’re going down for the last…

Guest Post by Author Kwen D. Griffeth Johannes Gutenberg introduced his printing press to the world in 1439. The device,…

It’s a fact. Books which have won awards get better reviews and more attention from readers and buyers alike. But…

What About Curly Quotes vs. Straight Quotes? Does it really matter if you use straight quotes (“)? Curly quotes (“ ”),…

It can be confusing to know where to use quotation marks. Writers are familiar with using quotes for sentences but…