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  • Steve Levi
  • T. Martin O'Neil
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Evan Swensen

1.2 Million Words Later

Fun Trivia for Curious Readers Who Love Books The Longest Novel Ever Written Was Meant to Be Read Like a …

Evan Swensen

The Candle and the Mirror

Edith Wharton’s quote, “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it,” …

Carl Douglass

One of The Boys

There was precious little to occupy the minds and hands of the boys of Cipher in the 1940s. Most of …

Evan Swensen

After the Scam

Grounded and Personal Over the years, our press has published books by authors from every corner of life. Some came …

Evan Swensen

The Bookworm That Ate My Homework (Literally)

Fun Trivia for Curious Readers Who Love Books Before the term bookworm was a badge of honor proudly worn by …

Evan Swensen

The Red Pen We All Carry

“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.” — H.G. Wells Writers know …

Evan Swensen

Don’t Launch to an Empty Room: How to Build Your Audience Before the Book Is Out

Here’s your story, fully formatted for Medium. It follows Medium’s conventions: clear subheadings, italics for book titles, a strong lede, …

Evan Swensen

Flip, Don’t Scroll: The Fun Science Behind Paper Power

Back when I was young — before “screen time” entered the vocabulary — reading meant sitting by a window in …

Evan Swensen

Writing Without Living Is Vanity

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” Henry David Thoreau …

Carl Douglass

HOW TO WRITE WITH ACCENTS, DIALECT, SLANG, COLLOQUALISM, AND ETHNICITY

Saban English             Saban English is the local dialect of Caribbean English spoken on Saba, an island in the leeward chain …

Evan Swensen

Gravity of a Single Word

It happened in a place so quiet, even paper turning felt like a disruption. The room, a modest university lecture …

Evan Swensen

The Trouble With Words That Can’t Make Up Their Minds

Fun Trivia About the Words That Say One Thing — and the Opposite I live in a town where people …

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