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  • Started by Jenny Steffan
    ...e lives without ever experiencing true love, others will be able to enjoy a long-lasting relationship with their partner. True love is usually defined as having strong feelings of...
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  • ...of a vanished era of romance and civility. After an explosive cabin fire, the narrator finds herself bereft of everything that once sheltered and defined her –  material possessions,...
  • Last reply by Rachel E. Pollock
    ...e book to a publisher." One of the articles that i've come across in my mad Googling was this one: http://www.hg.org/article.asp?id=6767 ...which defined a lot of nuanced terms for me...
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  • Throughout most of history, women have been told, in both open and unspoken ways, that they were important primarily for performing the roles defined for them by males: conceiving and...
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  • ...e and negative effects for everyone else.  As the children grow and time passes, what becomes clear is the strong value of family, however that's defined....
  • First, comps can be useful if they help an agent place your book on the shelf. But in a well defined genre, there's really no point. Now, I'd love for you to hone in on your genre a l...
  • Started by Kristen Elise
    Last reply by Pamela R Winnick
    ...out rewritten, but if a character's motive is given a new twist (for example) or if an event that was gray in the historical record is creatively defined (for example), I actually enj...
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  • Hi Christine, I believe specfic is usually defined as those genres that you can put a 'what if' in front of and that include fantasy, science fiction, horror, and all of their subgenr...
  • ...work in your favor.  At least it gives you a good foundation for networking with other writers, doing blog tours, etc.  My genre is a little less defined (women's literary fiction, yo...
  • ...her life is falling apart.  I intended to make this book is really more about finding our identities as women even though so much of our lives is defined by our relationships to other...