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Think You Can’t Get Sued For Putting Real People In Fiction? Think Again.

You can’t protect yourself as a creator just by changing names — but here are 5 tips from that could help

Oct 14

Still from “The Queen’s Gambit” on Netflix

Oct 14

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‘I’m In My 20s And Want To Be A Writer. What Should I Be Doing Right Now?’

The brutal truths nobody tells you about launching a writing career when you’re just a few years out of school

Mar 5

Sucess Ahead road sign

Mar 5

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What Do Publishers Really Pay You For A Book?

Learn from these 63 mind-blowing (or heartbreaking) ‘advances’ paid to bestselling or barely selling authors

Mar 31, 2023

What Do Publishers Really Pay You For A Book?

Mar 31, 2023

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When Should You Stop Reading A Book?

Here’s how I made the call on Percival Everett’s ‘James,’ a National Book Award winner and Pulitzer frontrunner

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Percival Everett and the cover of “James”

18h ago

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The Sweetness of Doing Nothing

My family had no TV, phone, or running water at our summer place, but we had something more important

6d ago

Girls in a hammock via Unsplash

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Why You (Still) Shouldn’t Try To Write ‘The Great American Novel’

Pop culture may have grown ‘too fractured’ for a book to matter at the scale it did in the Hemingway era

Dec 18

Why You (Still) Shouldn’t Try To Write ‘The Great American Novel’

Dec 18

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What Nobody Tells You About Those Year’s-Best-Books Lists

Why I refused to do them when I edited the book section of a large U.S. newspaper

Dec 16

Covers of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2024

Dec 16

Does A Lack Of Sleep Hurt Your Writing?

You might do better if you wrote drunk, some research suggests

Dec 9

Does A Lack Of Sleep Hurt Your Writing?

Dec 9

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How Much Loyalty Do You Owe Your Publisher?

A great British editor had a surprising response

Dec 8

How Much Loyalty Do You Owe Your Publisher?

Dec 8

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Why Are There So Few Great Stories About The Revolutionary War?

We should remember the thrilling events of Dec. 25, 1776, not just those of D-Day and other great battles

Dec 4

Scene from a reenactment of Washington’s of the Delaware

Dec 4

Janice Harayda

Janice Harayda

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Critic, novelist, award-winning journalist. Former book editor of the Plain Dealer and book columnist for Glamour. Words in NYT, WSJ, and other major media.

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