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All
  • All
  • Carl Douglass
  • Cil Gregoire
  • Evan Swensen
  • Mary Ann Poll
  • Mary Flint
  • Rebecca Wetzler
  • Rich Ritter
  • Robin Barefield
  • Steve Levi
  • T. Martin O'Neil
  • Valerie Winans
  • Victoria Hardesty
Steve Levi

The Matter of the Unsalable Salables

Heinz Noonan, the “Bearded Holmes” of the Sandersonville Police Department, was not having a good day. It was not a …

Steve Levi

The Matter of the Missing Manikins

Heinz Noonan, the “Bearded Holmes” of the Sandersonville Police Department, was working on a public relations statement for the Sandersonville …

Evan Swensen

Originality Over Imitation

Herman Melville: Failing with Honor, Writing with Fire “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” …

Carl Douglass

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

Oceania, continued: New Zealand: Oceanographic conditions between 700 CE and 1350 CE–approximately the Medieval Warm Period–enabled people to expand and …

Evan Swensen

Why Email Works (When You Use It Well)

Most authors don’t enjoy sales language. They don’t want to sound like a commercial or flood inboxes with links. What …

Evan Swensen

The ABCs Have a Secret

Here’s something you probably say all the time and never think twice about: alphabet. It rolls off the tongue like …

Evan Swensen

Writing Before You’re Ready

“You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually …

Carl Douglass

The Life-Changing Decision

Garven’s only problem in school was that he had completed the eighth-grade material early, and his mother and teacher, Rachel, …

Evan Swensen

Facts Tell—Stories Sell

How Can I Use Storytelling in My Emails to Connect with Readers? After publishing for more than 40 years and …

Evan Swensen

One Word Is Enough

We had so much fun with bookkeeper last week—the word with six legs and three pairs of double letters—that we …

Evan Swensen

When No One Told the Story, She Wrote It Herself

“If there’s a book you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” Toni …

Carl Douglass

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

Australian Aboriginal English There are several varieties of the English language used by Indigenous Australians. These varieties, which developed differently …

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