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So you’ve finished writing your book—perhaps a lifelong dream—and now you want to get it published. Where do you go from here? You poured your heart and soul into the writing, and I hope you also spent countless hours editing and revising. Any seasoned expert will tell you: All writing is rewriting. Certainly the writing […]
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When we writers spend hours alone at the keyboard, that isolation can get to even us introverts. The solution is to find a writers group—populated by like-minded fellow strugglers. I belong to three—one that meets in person and two that interact online, and I encourage Jerry Jenkins Writers Guild members to find one or form […]
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A guest blog by Sarah Rexford Book rejections are more than a dreaded aspect of traditional publishing. For many authors, they are part of the process. Have you ever wondered how many books are rejected each year? Neil Gordon, formerly an acquisitions editor for Penguin Random House, reveals that publishers reject over 99% of […]
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What’s the point of writing if everything has already been said? Many writers face this alarming question at some point. Every time I enter a bookstore, I wonder, Does anybody need to write anything more about anything? That there is nothing new under the sun is true, of course, if for no other reason than […]
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