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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

Does A Lack Of Sleep Hurt Your Writing?

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

15h ago

Does A Lack Of Sleep Hurt Your Writing?

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How Much Loyalty Do You Owe Your Publisher?

A great British editor had a surprising response

2d ago

How Much Loyalty Do You Owe Your Publisher?

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Thought Thinkers

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

5d ago

Scene from a reenactment of Washington’s of the Delaware

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My Holiday Party Dilemma

Should I go to a ‘Couples Pajama Party’?

6d ago

My Holiday Party Dilemma

6d ago

The Creepy NRA ‘Playbook’ For Responding To School Shootings

What the gun lobby urges members to say after mass murders involving firearms

Nov 30

School security video taking during the Columbine shootings

Nov 30

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5 Authors I’m Grateful For

These writers will never be turkeys in my eyes

Nov 28

5 Authors I’m Grateful For

Nov 28

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Were These History’s Worst Rejections Of Great Writers?

Why some editors thought Flaubert, Melville, James Baldwin, and Agatha Christie were turkeys

Nov 27

David Suchet as Herule Poirot in the 1990 “The Mysterious Affair at Styles”

Nov 27

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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