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Book Review: Winterfall by Lauren Rivers

Action-packed and with a lot of heart, Winterfall is like a great Hollywood movie. Its frozen world feels huge, dangerous, and full of secrets, but its people are tenacious in their struggle to survive.

Save Your Self-Published Manuscript as PDF

When you’re all done formatting to your manuscript to be uploaded at Kindle Direct Publishing, save the document as a PDF. As a PDF essentially is a series of “pictures” of how the desig…

Centennial: The Great Fair of 1876 and the Invention of America's Future #BookReview #Knopf #ARCReview #AmericanHistory - Bargain Sleuth Reviews

The spectacular story of the Great Centennial Exhibition of 1876—held in the shadow of a highly contested presidential election that triggered the collapse of

Do it right: do’s and don’ts vs. dos and donts

All too often, I see writers doing the don’ts where do’s and don’ts are concerned. In all fairness, though, various stylebooks disagree about what you should do with these two words.Let’s start wit…

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Use Catch-Phrase when Creating a Character

When writing your story, you’ll want each of the major characters to be distinct. One way of achieving that, especially in genre fiction, is to give a couple of the characters catch-phrases.A catch…

Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me #BookReview #37Ink #ARCReview #Biography #Memoir #CulturalStudy - Bargain Sleuth Reviews

A braided narrative that seamlessly integrates the history of the N-word with Elizabeth’s own story of growing up the Black Jewish daughter of Richard