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  • Thank you for this thoughtful piece Dorit. It highlights the struggle all of us are going through. Especially if we have a tight budget. It is really tough to make the money back you...
  • Thanks for your nice comment, Mardith. Yup, tight prose dies hard!
  • ...Also, once I got started, I decided to push through and try for the deadline for the Burt Award for teen/YA Caribbean literature. The deadline was tight but it didn't require much of...
  • ...ate of consciousness. Don't add any nouns like success or end tables or tight thighs. Just feel the desire....ay, or resolve them (by attaining success, or getting the end tables or tightening our thighs). Instead tak...
  • ...should have made different choices. Writers with a strong sense of who they are today will be able to withstand the inevitable criticism, holding tight to their own truths....
  • ...ver design. When I glance through the catalog, that strength always pops out. I've received tons of compliments for the cover of my debut novel, A Tight Grip. Just yesterday, when I...
  • Zetta, thank you and Jim for setting me free of worries. The article is tight -- right on. A writer near publication with Amazon or not to Amazon needs this expert advice and analysi...
  • ...ved that she didn't try to make it fit a 'marketing mold' but really took time to find out what I was trying to do and make that vision strong and tight. It's true that after a while...
  • ...e of giving me a choice, force me to choose between three equally horrible covers. Plus the fact that the second round of edits come with a fairly tight deadline, often just ten days...
  • ...mericasleadingmediapitchcoach.com.  It is aimed at authors wanting to do their own PR.  I focus on no cost approaches to pitching the media, since tight promotion budgets are the nor...