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  • There's a world of difference between reading to an audience -- that's marketing -- and the actual work of writing --  that's hard work.  I wouldn't even begin to comp...
  • Started by Laurie Kahn
    I would love feedback on this re write of my query letter;   Dear The themes and stories in LOVE OUTSOURCED evolved from my 30 years as a psychotherapist. I speciali...
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  • Hi, I'm a Canadian - born in Medicine Hat, Alberta, lived all over the place and now keep my canoe in Nova Scotia. I write just about everything but my big interest fo...

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  • molly best tinsley posted a message for Brooke Warner
    Greetings, Brooke, from Ashland, OR -- I'm a co-founder of the small press Fuze, and we met at a seminal gathering in Medford of Cascadia Publishers some years back....

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  • Thanks, Maria, for your excellent and thoughtful comments. I like what you say about how readers can tell when you're holding back, and my notion is to see what the st...
  • I once came across the notion of 'samskaras' (i.e., patterns) as ruts in a road. My sense of it is that the only way to reduce the ruts is via a bumpy ride across them...
  • Suzan
    I've never had anyone react that way to my fees, but I always expect it. Which is dumb, because really, why wouldn't we expect to be paid well for our work? It IS work...