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Steve Levi The Matter of the Snowfall Cover
Heinz Noonan, the ‘Bearded Holmes’ of the Sandersonville, North Carolina, Police Department, was suffering through another tough day on the …
Evan Swensen When Words Become Shields
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” With this striking sentence, Albert Camus summarized a …
Evan Swensen Email Isn’t a Guessing Game—It’s a System
Discovery does not happen by accident. Many authors assume a book on Amazon will be discovered simply because it exists. …
Carl Douglass You’re A Longways From Cipher, Garven
Garven knew little about the demands of the exclusive school in California, the networking of the exclusive boys, and had …
Evan Swensen Four Books a Year: Where Do You Fall on America’s Reading Scale?
I like trivia. Not the kind where you memorize who won the 1948 World Series or which bird can fly …
Evan Swensen The Quiet Courage of Writing with Conviction
“Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.” With those simple words, E.B. White distilled what countless …
Evan Swensen Why Good Dialogue Matters More Than Clever Plots
I’ve read manuscripts where the descriptions sang, the plots marched forward, yet the dialogue limped. Characters spoke like mannequins, stiff …
Evan Swensen Surprising Secrets of Library Books
I love the smell of a library book. The musty paper, the ink softened by time, even the faint whiff …
Evan Swensen Why Writers Must Learn to Throw Their Words Away
“The wastebasket is a writer’s best friend.” With this simple truth, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel Prize winner and master storyteller, …
Evan Swensen If You Confuse, You Lose A Publisher’s Perspective on Author Sites
The first time I heard Donald Miller say, “If you confuse, you lose,” it stopped me. I’ve spent decades working …
Evan Swensen Meet the World’s First Author: A High Priestess from 2300 BC
When I tell people the world’s earliest known author was a woman, I usually get raised eyebrows. The fact often …
Evan Swensen From Sickness to Clarity
“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.” George Orwell spoke these …