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From the category archives:

Book proposal

News Flash: My first-person voice sounds more like me

January 21, 2010

What's on my travel memoir bookshelf?

January 13, 2010

How to turn your blog into a book

October 26, 2009

Rewriting. Not my manuscript, my proposal.

October 22, 2009

Tackling Chapter One, the scariest of them all

July 28, 2009

Literary agent Rachelle Gardner addresses memoir

June 3, 2009

When to query?

May 15, 2009

What makes my book unique?

May 11, 2009

The all-important query

May 6, 2009

Morphing a good title into the perfect title

May 6, 2009

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