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  • Happy Thanksgiving to all!  I'm on the hunt for a book that covers legalese for writers - criminal law specifically. I've got three students at Osgoode Hall Law school...
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  • Started by Ripley Patton
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    In the 1940's Robert Heinlein, respected author of hard-cor...and fairy tales to slipstream to magical realism to modern myth-making -- and more. Un...kled with fantasy elements. Fairy tales are told in modern settings. History gets turn...
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  • I prefer to use a different metaphor to think about writing. I start from the Shinto principle I learned when I was a kid, living in Japan, of waiting (with as much pe...
  • Let's see-- where to start? A newer agent "building her list" is fine, as long as she has either A) any track record of sales before yours or B) more mature agents aro...
  • To clarify, you've asked for input, advise, and where you should take your blog? You'll have to be more direct and clearly communicate exactly what it is you want advi...
  • Started by Jenny Steffan
    Basketball is a team sport played between two teams. Typically, each team has five players, and the object of the game is to shoot the basketball through the opposing...
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  • Lexy, Great story. Congrats! A few comments about terminology. Publishing writers, that's what we are, need to start using different language. Vanity Press, Self publi...
  • Jen, thank you! I really encourage everyone to visit Jen's website and read about her fascinating project. I hadn't realized you had a Facebook author page, so I just joined (liked? the terminology is not very graceful, lol).
  • Jen, you crack me up with your terminology! I giggled when I read you're a "pantser" For a split second, until I read further down, I had a funny image of your "pantsi...
  • Hi, Elizabeth, Just kind of drifting through here.  I like this second version better than the first.  One comment on the last line: where you have "I was no longer a...