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• When to Seek Permission for Quotes in Memoirs, Maximizing Global Distribution, and More: @MichaelLaRonn and @sacha_black

• UK: The £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize Names Its 2024 Shortlist: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives

• 5 Family Dramas Full of Chaos, Rivalry and Devotion: by Kelsey Hall @booktrib
• Five Sci-Fi Stories About Body Hopping: by Lorna Wallace @reactormag @literaryreactor
• Tracking the Sharp Turn of the Campus Novel Over 30 Years: by Savannah Cordova @reedsyhq
• Crime Fiction: In The Spotlight: Catherine Chidgey’s Pet: @margotkinberg
• Four Gothic and Neo-Gothic Novels About Mothers: by Gail Lukasik @crimereads
• 12 Essential Types of Poems Every Writer Should Know: @davechesson

• Stop Letting Circumstances Get In the Way of Writing: @ninaamir
• Six Writers on Getting Words on the Page: @lithub @literaryhub

• 10 Things Every Author Must Do to Be Successful: @bookgal

• When You Realize You Don’t Want to be a Writer After All: by Sarah Callender @writerunboxed
• A Journalism Career as Inspiration: by Don Butler @ButlerDon
• Benefits of Writing Your Work Using Pen and Paper: @Christinaq.Writer
• When Your First Language is Role-Playing Games: by Edward Carmien’
• Tips to Help Develop a Healthy Perspective on Winning Writing Awards: @CindyDevoted @ediemelson
• When authors pivot to a new genre: by Alessandra Torre
• Proven Keys to Writing a Good Book: @WriteNowCoach
• Rethinking Your Bucket List Accomplishments: @terahsharris @writerunboxed
• So You Call Yourself a Writer. Now What? by E.S. Foster

• Five Common Problems in Urban Fantasy Worldbuilding: by Oren Ashkenazi

• Using Newspapers to Inform Historical Fiction: by Liz Gauffreau @storyempire

• Genre Expectations: Writing Classic Mystery and Cozy Mystery: @ACW_Author @EdieMelson
• Empathy and Crime Fiction: How Do You Make Readers Root for the “Unrootable”? by Steve Hamilton @crimereads
• Crime Fiction With an “Inverted Mystery” Structure: @margotkinberg

• Writing a Fiction Blurb: by Stephen Geez @storyempire
• Goodbye Boring Bios! How To Write A Bio That Gets Results: @bang2write

• Spontaneous Generation and Author Platform: by Doug Sofer @JaneFriedman

• The Fast, Exuberant Rise of Comics in Italy: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• Italy Reports Book Industry Slowdown: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives

• Self-Publishing Training Manuals And Focusing On Your True Fans With Guy Windsor: @thecreativepenn

• First Page Critique – Untitled Comedic Crime/Black Comedy: @burke_writer

• If your protagonist is bored, you can bet your reader will be too: @nathanbransford

• Writing Authentic Battle Scenes: by Ian J. Miller

• How to Write Dialogue (with Examples): by Polly Watt

• Five Ways House in the Cerulean Sea Gets Oppression Wrong: by Chris Winkle
• Against All Odds, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Shows Us How to Make Sequeldom Fun: by Emmet Asher-Perrin @reactormag @literaryreactor

• How to Enhance Your Theme Through a Central Metaphor: @jessicastrawser @careerauthors

• The Secret Sauce for Writers: Intuition: by KimBoo York @janefriedman
• Co-Authoring: How to Keep the Drama On the Page: by Midge Raymond @janefriedman
• Using Fiction to Interrogate Celebrity, Politics, and Mental Health – A Talk with Elissa R. Sloan: @kristanhoffman @writerunboxed
• What is Freytag’s Pyramid?: Definition, Examples & More: @themaltesetiger
• Making Trouble During An Ordinary Day And Other Character Words of Wisdom: @killzoneauthors
• 2 Options That are BETTER than the Advice to Write What You Know: @TimSuddeth @EdieMelson
• The Chronology of Story: Foreshadowing: by Kay DiBianca
• Can a Prologue Establish Dramatic Irony? by Oren Ashkenazi
• Moving metaphors give me vertigo: @jbernoff
• How to Write the Grand Gesture for Any Story, Any Genre: @septcfawkes
• Writing: The Middling Middle: @lindasclare

• Your Beta Reader Options: @LisaPoisso @TheIWSG

• About Writing Trilogies: @worddreams @storyempire

• How to Strengthen Our Story with Tropes: @jamigold

• Some Clean Cuss Words For You: @TheGrammarDiva
• 153 Vivid Verbs and How to Use Them Effectively: by Randal Gilmore
• Tighten Up: by Ann Gordon @rmfw

• Balancing Story and Worldbuilding at Any Writing Stage: by E.S. Foster

• AI is Just a Tool; Your Creativity Makes Your Content Yours: @FauziaBurke

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