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Personal Essays are Still a Hot Commodity

Trish Lockard

Nov 16, 2019
3 min

Personal Essays are Still a Hot Commodity

A personal essay is about a topical subject discussed from a personal perspective, yours or someone else’s.

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Trish Lockard

Sep 11, 2019
4 min

Critique and Criticism: Part 2

Trust is a requirement of the editor-author relationship. You must trust that I want your work to be of outstanding quality.

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Not a Weekend Project: How to Build an Author Platform, Part 2

Terri Lyon

Jul 28, 2019
3 min

Not a Weekend Project: How to Build an Author Platform, Part 2

Author Terri Lyon focuses on how she evaluates the effectiveness of her author platform to create an audience and generate sales.

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Trish Lockard

Mar 4, 2019
3 min

Publishing in 2019--What to Expect

The sales data in traditional publishing for 2018 pointed to some surprising trends. If you want to know what the industry is looking for...

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"My grammar's good, I don't need an editor" and other silly things writers say

Trish Lockard

Aug 3, 2018
3 min

"My grammar's good, I don't need an editor" and other silly things writers say

I am a member of several closed writers’ groups on Facebook. I won’t name them. No one I have encountered so far is setting the world on ...

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