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The Most Important Reader Question

"What's going to happen?" is the most important question you can build into your story. That anticipation is reader glue.

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6 Tips To Translate Your Work Effectively

Editor and project manager, Linda Ruggeri, offers six tips about translating your novel (and how to do it right).

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A Secret Weapon for Characterization: The Character’s Job

Like it or not, we tend to size people up and put them in boxes. Angela Ackerman shows that jobs can reveal a lot about people's characters.

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Editing For Theme: Search-and-Employ

Barbara Linn Probst shows how editing your work for theme can strengthen your book. In summary, "Search and Destroy" can be swapped for "Search and Employ."

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The Importance of the Triple Edit

Completing a draft of a book can feel like you scaled a mountain. Breathe and celebrate your accomplishment! And then hire some really good editors. John Peragine breaks down the process.

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