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  • FCTB: Book Descriptions

    You’ve been working on pulling together everything that you need to do to get ready to publish your book.  You’ve got your title.  You’ve got a knockout tagline.  Now, you come to what wi

  • Five Things I Learned from My Basenjis

    I’m a dog nut.  Specifically, I’m a basenji nut.  They’re very unique dogs.  Think of a cat trapped in a dog’s body, and that’s pretty much the sum total of a basenji’s personality.

  • FCTB: Creating the Tagline

    Okay.  Now you’ve got a killer manuscript and an awesome title to go with it.  You’re ready to do the cover, right?  Hold on.  Not quite so fast.  You still have a ways to go.  Why?  The

  • Go with Your Gut

    If you have even one little shred of doubt about your marriage, don’t go through with the adoption. —Paraphrased from Raymond “Red” Reddington, The Blacklist I’m a huge fan of The Blackli

  • FCTB: Finding a Title

    What’s one of the most critical part of a book?  The opening paragraph?  The cover?  The text on the back cover?  All of those go into a good novel.  To me, the title ranks up there alongsid