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would go something like this: “it is very hard to get somebody to understand something when understanding it would highlight the conflict between two propositions that appeal to them.” would...

The Secret to Getting Great Book Reviews on Amazon http://bookmarketingmaven.typepad.com/book_marketing_maven/2010/07/the-secret-to-book-reviews-on-amazon.html When consumers shop for books on...

http://bookmarketingmaven.typepad.com/book_marketing_maven/2010/06/back-cover-copy-that-sells-books-by-the-boatload.html How to Craft Back Cover Copy that Sells Books by the Boatload In today's...

20 Warning Signs That Your Content Sucks by Jonathan Morrow http://www.copyblogger.com/does-my-content-suck/ 1. You think your content is “good enough” If you had to rate your content on a scale of...

How to Find a Job on Twitter http://adage.com/article?article_id=144714 What New Grads Looking to Land a Gig Must Know By Allison Janney Published: June 29, 2010 Allison Janney Hey, new grads,...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/melissa-broder/and-you-dont-stop-how-i-o_b_613274.html If you told me five years ago that I'd have a book in the window at St. Mark's Bookshop, I would have plotzed. I...

How to Win Friends and Influence Readers A guest post by Katie Tallo of Momentum Gathering. The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most. ~ Dale Carnegie...

This is a guest post from Paul Lonergan, an author, a ghost-writer and a copywriter. For more than 20 years he’s been using words to sell everything from stock-broking services to beauty products to...

Writer’s Vacation Posted by Shonna Slayton Published in Creativity I’m convinced that a writer takes a vacation quite differently than most people (photographers and other artists notwithstanding.)...

Agent Barbara Poelle On: 6 Things Writers Can Do To Make Their September Rock Barbara Poelle is an agent with the Irene Goodman Literary Agency, representing thrillers, literary suspense, historical...

What Your Readers and Book Buyers Want to Know About You and What You Need to Know About Them By Dorothy Thompson What should authors concentrate on when answering questions in interviews or just...

http://writetodone.com/2010/06/28/201-ways-to-arouse-your-creativity/ A guest post by Katie Tallo of Momentum Gathering. Electric flesh-arrows … traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the...

http://thescriptlab.com/the-formula/character/dialogue/36-exposition-five-rules Exposition: Five Rules EXPOSITION: FIVE RULES One of the tricks is to have the exposition conveyed in a scene of...

by Chuck Palahniuk Twenty years ago, a friend and I walked around downtown Portland at Christmas. The big department stores: Meier and Frank… Fredrick and Nelson… Nordstroms… their big display...

http://blogs.office.com/b/office-show/archive/2010/08/18/10-tips-for-great-storytelling-from-a-powerpoint-novelist.aspx 10 tips for great storytelling from a PowerPoint novelist Doug Kim 18 Aug 2010...

Paulo Campos at Yingle Yangle http://www.yingleyangle.com/2010/07/20-questions-to-help-improve-your.html 20 Questions to Help Improve Your Dialogue One of the biggest let-downs as a reader is weak...

Name That Character: Top Ten Tips There are a plethora of movie character names that become everlasting brands in American culture: Rocky, Yoda, Forrest Gump, and Shrek to name a few. And when it...

http://fictiongroupie.blogspot.com/2010/09/love-scenes-101-dont-be-corny-or-porn-y.html So what exactly constitutes a love scene? Are they only important for those of us writing romance? Of course...