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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 Alligator in the Apple Orchard

I remember it like it was yesterday.  I remember it so well because I was there and I wasn’t a …

Steve Levi

The Matter of the Parmesan Flake Flight

Heinz Noonan, the “Bearded Holmes” of the Sandersonville Police Department, was savoring an Italian meal in a restaurant in Manteo …

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 …

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