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  • Dear all, my novel SWIMMING UPSTREAM is free on Amazon today! Not really had much sales activity and really want to try and get it noticed and breakthrough into some d...
  • Hi! My name is Lisa Marie Brodsky and I was born in Chicago, moved to  Madison, WI in 2001. I wrote a cathartic blog from 2004-2010 and then felt I was "done" with tha...
  • Hi everyone! Just found this group and thought it looked like a nice place to hang out. I'm working on a young adult fiction manuscript ... the first in a planned tril...
  • Started by Julie Isaac
    Hello Ladies, I am so looking forward to this class starting so I can relax a bit. This last week has been crazy! I've been trying out several new promotional techniq...
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  • Started by Rachel Resnick
    Dear Writers: Ready to unwind at a desert oasis and unleash your creativity? Have a...how-stopping minutes! Reading/performance is an increasingly crucial skill for modern-day authors. Plus it’s a gr...
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  • Started by Kathleen Kern
    I stayed up until midnight on January 23, because the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award opened on 12:01 am on the 24th.  I was too wired to sleep afterwards.  Someone of...
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  • Started by Rachel Unkefer
    Last reply by Rachel Unkefer
    I was quite surprised to see my name on the list of quarter finalists this week. Anybody else in this group also on the list? Short excerpts (roughly the first 15 page...
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  • I began my writing career during NaNoWriMo 2010.  My 14-year-old daughter (at the time) told me she was entering.  While many people have assumed I always wanted to be...
  • LOL--It's like learning a foreign language isn't it? Between writing/publishing/marketing/blogging you have to pick-up each ones lexicon--it's acronym hell.   Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, and Face-to-Face.
  • No, Blake Morrison definitely wasn't talking about the written record left behind by the great and the good and people who participated in major events. He was talking...