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		<title>One Writing for Publication &#8211; When is the Best Time to Hire a Book Editor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know when, on the writing curve, Stephen King or Nelson DeMille might seek editorial advice, only that it is documented that they do. So it begs the question, for the writer trying to break into the business with a major royalty publisher&#8211;and who accepts that a professional editor looking at the manuscript might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Literary Agency Sales and Contacting the Right Agent</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If querying literary agents isn&#8217;t difficult enough, how is a writer who is attempting to break into the business supposed to decipher the sales figures that are posted by major agents in areas such as the Dead Reckoning section of Agent Search (which is superb by the way) when individual statistics during a 12 month [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Writing &#8211; When Trying to Emulate Classical Authors is Not a Good Idea</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently critiqued a spate of unpublished manuscripts that were well written for the most part except for what I refer to as &#8220;literary retro,&#8221; and I thought it might be a good idea to address what my phrase encompasses.
It&#8217;s a Lot More than the Overuse of Commas
For many readers and writers, the most obvious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Writing for Publication &#8211; When Not to Hire a Book Editor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A short time ago I received a request to review an author&#8217;s query letter.  It was awful.  The letter was written in a structure that would make a seventh-grade English teacher cringe.  And as is commonly the case with writers who are unfamiliar with the nuances of the publishing industry, the genre [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Writing &#8211; Understanding the Importance of Starting the Story Sooner</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What Does it Mean When Told to Start the Story Sooner?
Last fall I attended a writer&#8217;s symposium with a dais that included several well-known mystery writers who fielded questions prepared by a skilled moderator.  Each writer was asked what he or she felt was the single most significant issue for which anyone seeking publication [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips for Writing a Publishable Novel &#8211; The Art of Tying up Story Threads Acceptably</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Story Threads can be a Huge Problem if Not Resolved, and even Some of the Best Writers are Not Sacrosanct

A thread is a plot element, nothing more, nothing less, but a problem for authors if they do not reconcile their threads for the reader.  The obvious rationale for an exception is to purposely leave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Query Letter Writing Fact and Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fact:  Query Letter Writing is an Art Form.  
Make no mistake about it, writing queries that produce results is a craft.  
Fact:  A query should not be written like a synopsis.  
I devoted an entire article to this, yet writers who have read the piece continue to send me sample [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Writing a Publishable Novel &#8211; Understanding Developmental Arcs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Transitioning Narrative and Developmental Arcing are Not Synonymous
Effective transitioning is the utilization of various techniques that enable a reader to move comfortably from one plot point to another.  A developmental arc is generally much more detailed, and involves a character or plot element that needs to evolve for the story to maintain or gain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Effectively Transitioning Narrative</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a writer advances through the process of crafting what he or she hopes will be a publishable novel, one of the most daunting challenges is to meet the requirements for effectively transitioning material.  For many writers transitional elements can be difficult to comprehend, let alone achieve. 
Transitioning is Necessary from both a Micro [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Not to Include in a Query Letter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of us who professionally edit manuscripts spend a great deal of our time providing our clients with query letter assistance.  And happily so.  Because if we&#8217;re not coaching those who use our services on how to write effective query letters, a lot of very good authors are often unaware of some of [...]]]></description>
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