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Should one invest in a professional editor before querying?
Let's say you have completed a novel. Since you're not totally naive, you have also complete a few drafts, where with "few" I mean at least more than two.
You are at a point that your book seems ...
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Tense in a query letter, synopsis, outline
When writing fiction, we generally use past tense for the narration and present tense for dialogue. When you are done with a fiction novel and are ready to query a literary agent/publisher, what ...
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What is the Normal Process for Gathering Permissions for Quotation Collections
I am contemplating gathering a collection of quotations from a single writer, similar to The Quotable [C.S.] Lewis by Wayne Martindale [Tyndale].
Most of the writers works remain under copyright, ...
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