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  • Deborah, a heart wrencher of a topic—I love how Nancy Rappaport (below) put it: It is “an evoloving journey of protection, privacy and our need to write about what we...
  • I'm am so tired of seeing books that look, to me, "generic". By generic, I mean that they look like a...ng that I have two other books in my current library with either the same model on the cover or the same bas...
  • You know, I've had some "editors" complain about my use of slang and colloquialisms. They claim people will not understand it. I put my foot down in one instance where...
  • What a brilliant article! Yes, yes ,yes! This is what I have been preaching for a year now. The stigma of self-publishing is a crap stigma. I, personally, would rather...
  • Thank you for the info, Sarah. I'm struggling with my memoir because I'd like others to avoid some of life's traps that I fell into. I want enough of my story to make it personal yet generic enough that the reader can see his/herself and want to make changes.
  • When I look for a beta reader or feedback I throw out some brief "spec fic action adventure" statement. When someone replies I throw out the 2-3 paragraph description. Both are handy and both usually succeed in what they are used for. Generic vs General
  • My misatake for wandering from the subject of war in the generic sense to a specific w...he outcome was not universally achieved. Nevertheless, that process provides a model for the kind of work that wo...
  • You do understand, Kate, that you could have saved $200 and created your own blog tour just by asking site owners to host you. This is the kind of expenditure that mos...
  • "I felt deflated sometimes, as when I re-read it after what I believed was the very last edit and saw that I had inadvertently sucked the soul out of it and had to go...