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Writers will find featured authors John Land, Erna Kamerman Perry, Larry D. Thompson, Robert Dugoni and Steve Shukis in this edition, as well as writer's workshops dealing with bringing your novel to life , getting your plot right and avoiding newbie novelist mistakes. Plus, this issue's book of the month is Karla Negger's Harbor Island.

Story Design helps storytellers craft better stories - by design. Many stories fail to deliver because they lack conviction, or have nothing new to say. Rather than focus on narrative, or style, our simple 7-step process ensures substance and significance. Developed over three years of writers...

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The 2018 edition of firstwriter.com’s bestselling directory for writers is the perfect book for anyone searching for literary agents, book publishers, or magazines. It contains over 1,400 listings, including revised and updated listings from the 2017 edition, and nearly 400 brand new entries.•...

Research publications have always been key to building a successful career in science, yet little if any formal guidance is offered to young scientists on how to get research papers peer reviewed, accepted, and published by leading scientific journals. With What Editors Want, Philippa J. Benson and...

When you pen those magical words, “The End”, it’s really only the first step on the road to publication. That first draft needs polishing, revising, editing, but you are too close to your work to do this alone. You need independent, thorough and honest feedback. The kind that digs deep into...

The second issue of MJ Magazine includes featured authors RaeAnne Thayne and Rita Plush, author of the month, Tess Gerritsen. Reviews and interviews including Mark Rubenstein interviewing M.J. Rose and Christoph Fischer interviewing Paulette Mahurin, Ada Winder and DM Lee. The featured new author...

Which of These Sentences Has a Hyphenation Mistake?  The winner of the pie-eating contest ate ninety nine pies.  The seven-foot tall man was obvious in the crowd.  Her two-thirds share of the business meant that she called the shots.  She owned two-thirds of the voting stock in the business.  He...

The fourth issue of MJ Magazine includes Book of the Month Madiba: A-Z: The Many Faces of Nelson Mandela; Featured Authors Clint Morey and Allan Topol; Christian Fiction reviewed by Lee Harmon; Fran’s Top 5 New Authors: Mark Murphy; and recommended reading by Marybeth Zeman, Steve Berry and Daniel Palmer; and Featured Teen Columnist Jake Swerdloff. New Section — Writer’s Workshop.

Modern Wonders, a title in the five-title series Frameworks: Science, Technology, and the Built Environment, illuminates the science, technology, art and architecture, and history of the world's greatest architectural and engineering achievements, including the Eiffel Tower, St. Louis Gateway Arch,...

You may think this title is a bit of a mouthful, well, yes, it is, but it also says exactly what this book is about, which is giving you the answers to a whole host of questions regarding authorship, physically designing a book and generally 'being indie'. This is the book which, most probably,...

No longer does publishing your own book have the stigma it once did–mostly due to the changes in the industry including improved technology, author's access via the Internet to self-publishing resources, and the procedures that allow self-published authors to get their books in bookstores...

This piece is in the form, “Child as the narrator" It is an actual memory from when I was around 20 months old (the mid-1970s).

Want to get your poetry published? There's no better tool for making it happen than Poet's Market 2018, which features hundreds of publishing opportunities specifically for poets, including listings for book and chapbook publishers, print and online poetry publications, contests, and more. These listings...