They're (NOT) Gonna Put You in the Movies: Book-to-Film Scams

Book-to-film scams naming streaming services like Netflix are a new variation on the old Hollywood writing scams. Beware!

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5 Tips for Taking Feedback to Help Your Writing Shine
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5 Tips for Taking Feedback to Help Your Writing Shine • Career Authors

by Holly Searcy As writers, we’ve all been there: You finish your story, you pass it to readers for feedback, and what do you get? Half a dozen differing (often contradictory) opinions on the creative work you’ve poured your heart and soul into. What do you do with that? How do you keep the negatives […]

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A New AI Scam Is Targeting Thousands of Authors. I Was One of Them.

With their blend of ego and insecurity, writers are ideal marks for swindlers promising fortune and glory. Chatbots have turbocharged the con.

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5 Key Development Questions to Bring Your Characters to Life
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5 Key Development Questions to Bring Your Characters to Life – Elizabeth Spann Craig

Five essential questions to develop complex, memorable characters in your fiction. Guest post by Loretta Bushell.

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Your best bet: Could’ve vs. could of

Here’s a writing tip you can take to the races.Sometimes we’ve misheard an expression all through our lives and then repeat that error in our writing. Could of, should of and would of are fine exam…

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Robert Gray: Author, Editor on Bookish Phishing Scams

It's so hard to be an author. It's also super hard to keep an independent publishing company afloat for nearly 30 years... and this scam and