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Monday, August 4, 2025

The Eight Rules for Writing Screen-to-Print

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You read that title right. It means screenplay writing rules for writing a book. We live a new literary world of 140 character Twitter, ...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

15 Writing Tips from a Professional Editor

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  Everyone approaches editing a little bit differently, but here are a few common things she always keeps an eye out for. Let’s take a look ...
Monday, December 9, 2024

Limits and doubts

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Monday, September 23, 2024

New from Saguaro Books, LLC

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With Damian and his men closing in, Kiara and her family frantically hunt for another entrance to Emeraldo. Unable to gain access, they fi...
Tuesday, May 28, 2024

What are some ethical considerations of machine-generated content?

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  Huiling Ding Professor of English AI-generated content, be it texts or artwork, introduces many ethical challenges related to authors...
Monday, May 13, 2024

Are There Genre-Specific Page-count Requirements?

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  Young Adult (YA) Fiction: YA novels typically have between 55,000 and 80,000 words. John Green's The Fault in Our Stars is a well-...
Thursday, April 25, 2024

New from PTP Book Division

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  Valencina, the Ivory Woman   Yes, the Ivory Man was really the Ivory Woman. Now that has been established, where did the precious, unusu...
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Mary J. Nickum is a retired librarian, who is now an editor and freelance writer of fish culture related articles. Her primary focus is on science for the public. She has chosen to extend her science for the public outreach to children.
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