by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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- Launching Your Book During the Holidays: @KeriBarnum @JFbookman
- Hindsight in 2020: The eBook Market During Covid-19: by Ricci Wolman @WrittenWordM
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- Dead authors who would have been terrible on Twitter: @jessiegaynor @lithub
- “24 Lessons Learned from Writing My Novel”: by Noelle Sterne @LiveWriteThrive
- A Writer’s Freakout Schedule: @AuthorSAT
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- Mastering the Amazon Book Description: @selfpubwithdale
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Thanks for the links, Elizabeth. The one that particularly caught my eye this time was the one about plagiarism. It’s really unfortunate, but there are people out there who do that, and it’s important to protect our work. I know it’s not exactly the same, but it makes me think of a friend of mine who found out that one of her books was pirated. Those kinds of things are really upsetting, and I think it’s important to have ways to protect ourselves.
It can be really upsetting for authors when they’ve put a lot of time into a story only to have it pirated. And sometimes authors have to prove to the retailers it’s *their* own work, which is even worse.
Thanks for including Lee’s article on tricky words!
Another great post from the IWSG!