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Tips and Strategies for a Successful Book Launch

by raynelacko.com raynelacko.com | Nov 3, 2014 | Best Writer Tips

You want to sell books, right? The journey to publication was long, wrought with *tears and massive revisions (*Oh, was that just me?). The sole purpose of our admirable, satisfying, and daunting craft is not to send our books to a blind oblivion, buried under the...

One Last Song – A New Book by Author S.K. Falls

by raynelacko.com raynelacko.com | Oct 27, 2014 | Fiction Novel Writing, Who is Writing What?

Exciting news! The pub date for One Last Song, a brand-new book by S.K. Falls, has been announced! Falls is the award-winning author of the popular Fevered Souls and Glimpsing Stars book series. For those of us who love books and writing, it is our pleasure (nay,...

Boiling Down Story – Creating a Pitch

by raynelacko.com raynelacko.com | Oct 14, 2014 | Fiction Novel Writing

As a competing mentee in this year’s Pitch Wars, I’ve been working on formulating a pitch. It would seem that, having dreamed up, outlined, and written an entire novel (and I won’t even go into the number of revisions I’ve done) that I should...

Is a Writer’s Retreat for you?

by raynelacko.com raynelacko.com | Oct 6, 2014 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, For the love of writing

When was the last time you walked through a meadow? Not a cut-lawn city park expanse, or your own back yard just before mowing, but an honest-to-goodness meadow? Last weekend I attended an intimate writer’s retreat at Prue’s House at Hilltop Park on...

Clothes The Door: a Short Story

by raynelacko.com raynelacko.com | Sep 8, 2014 | For the love of writing, Short stories

Warning: this story contains adult themes. While in no way graphic, the content is nonetheless appropriate only to readers eighteen and older. Thank you! I’m so excited to announce that this story appears in the September 2014 publication of GRAVEL magazine....
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