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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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