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A Spring Thank You from WITS: Promo Made Easy...

As the March blog mistress here at WITS, I'm taking a page out of my personal blog's playbook and marking the beginning of Spring with a celebration of you. You're going to get the chance to come out and play in the comments section today. [Hey! I saw all you introverts go diving under your […]

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Taking the Guesswork out of Writing a Traditional Mystery: 9 Common Problems (and Solutions!)

Writers In The Storm is delighted to welcome back Elizabeth Craig, one of the most giving writers we know. She released her latest Southern Quilting Mystery last month and stopped by WITS to help the rest of us take some of the guesswork out of writing mysteries. ************ By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig So you’re a big mystery […]

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How to Use Your Logline, Tagline, and Pitch to Create a Stronger Story

by Marcy Kennedy Most of us think of a logline, tagline, and pitch as marketing tools we write after we’ve written our story so that we can use them to land an agent or as our book’s cover copy. We’re doing it backwards. If we wait until we’re done with our book, any problems our […]

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It's Write O'Clock: Do You Know Where Your Contacts Are?

Writers In The Storm welcomes back literary attorney, Susan Spann, with her next installment of her author’s business plan series. By Susan Spann Welcome back to our ongoing series on writing an author business plan! We’re almost through – just two more sections to go. Today, we’re taking a look at Section 6: Operations and […]

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A 12-Step Checklist for Writing A “Sexy” Synopsis

By Shannon Donnelly When I first started writing, I found out you needed a synopsis to submit to agents. Okay, I thought, I can do that. Well, I did, but not so well—twenty pages later I had a synopsis that rambled, wandered, and just did not do the job. Thankfully, someone pointed this out to […]

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