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"Most of the presses on this list accept work from writers with a specific geographic region or nationality, some have very strict limitations, and others are more lenient."
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"If you're like most writers I hear from, you're probably wondering how to sell your book to a publisher. Publishing is a strange and mysterious industry, and it can be very hard to find your way through it …"
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"As you begin writing your opening scenes, you know your first job is to introduce the character, problem, and world. But unless you ground your readers with deep POV right from the start …"
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"Readers – and viewers – love to know they’ve got a big, long experience coming. Series also make excellent commercial sense. Your world and characters will give you multiple books, not just one."
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"A preorder campaign is when authors or publishers provide some sort of incentive to readers who preorder a book. With a few rare exceptions, publishers generally do not run preorder campaigns."
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The Lexicons are marvelous guides to consult while you write.
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"Specifically for writers, though, they [algorithms] can be particularly bad because they know not just what we enjoy …but what we want, which is, of course, to be the best writers that we can possibly be."
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"When I’m talking to writers, I talk a lot about scheduling our writing time, being consistent with it, treating it as something non-negotiable and sacred. Writing requires that consistency. … But life happens."
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"When you set your characters in motion, you inspire the reader’s hope that your story will also go somewhere. Orienting us to those characters and their setting with a block of description, though, suspends that movement."
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"Case studies are real-world narratives that follow a person’s questions, challenges, decisions, and discoveries. Written as stories, their purpose is to describe a problem and analyze it …"
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"These magazines pay for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. They’re a mix of literary and genre magazines. They are open now, or will soon open for submissions."
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"They are open to submissions right now through February 15, 2027. Submitting authors can expect a response by the end of March, 2027, though acceptances and rejections will be sent on a rolling basis."
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"Just as doting parents run the risk of smothering their children, writers run the risk of smothering their characters, pigeonholing them and not allowing them to grow."
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