| Comma Usage Made Simple |
Don't they drive you nuts?
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| Apostrophe Usage Made Simple |
Y'all watch this!
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| Hurricane Cats |
Drowning cats! Oh no!
(I swear it's not about Katrina or Rita, okay? It's an oldie.)
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| How Not To Get Published |
Did I really publish four books in the same year without a lick of talent?
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| Common Writing Mistakes |
I started editing novels in 2001. Looking back at my
experiences, I feel like sharing the most common
mistakes I've seen. If you'll go through your
manuscript and fix these before you submit it to
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| Picasso Vanished! |
After we moved, Picasso went AWOL!
Lemme start at the beginning.
Lunar New Year, 2003. Jan and I had finished our second semester
of teaching. We'd lived in Hangzhou for just over a year, and .
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| How To Break Into Print Publishing |
Publisher or agent? Whatever you do, don't pay any money. They pay you. You don't pay them. Okay?
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| Writer School? |
Here's something from my mailbag. "Dear Michael, do you need to
do good in school if you want to be a writer? I stink at school
and all my friends laugh at me when I tell them I want to write,
but
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| Hong Kong Calico |
Dogs have masters;
Cats have staff.
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| Daisy |
She was a four-month-old stray, a street urchin who'd been picked up by a dogcatcher. She was two weeks past her scheduled execution, but again, this place had a reputation for incompetence.
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| Get Rich Writing Fiction |
But if you want to write to get rich, even that's not enough. Nah, the time to think about your reader is before you write the book, not after.
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| Signs You Might Be A Cat |
Meow!
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| Dixie Dawg |
Did this monster really mother a kitten or am I on drugs? Or both? Who can say?
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| Secret Agent Man |
Today's mission -- smuggle a contraband calico cat from my flat, past security and a few hundred tenants. Find a taxi. Explain to the driver that we're going to the Hong Kong SPCA even though I don't
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| About Writing |
Here's everything I know about improving your writing, publishing it electronically and in print, and promoting it after the sale. Two questions you should ask:
(1) What will it cost me?
(2) What
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