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Need more hidden conflict in your work-in-progress? The Conflict Thesaurus to the rescue!

Fun & Games With Conflict?! October 12th 2021 is release day for The Conflict Thesaurus! Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi have all kinds of excitement

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Is Ingram rejecting your print files? Here’s the Mac fix.

To publish a print edition of a book, both IngramSpark and Amazon ask for a print quality PDF that is “flattened” and includes “embedded fonts”.​

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A Generous Giveaway with “All the Feels” from the authors of The Emotion Thesaurus, 2nd ed.!

 Authors Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi’s have a brand new edition of The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Expression! This second edition has

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Want more emotion in your fiction and less drama pinning down the draft?

If you are a fiction writer and haven’t ever used Angela Ackerman’s and Becca Puglisi’s writing thesauri, you might be really missing out. You know

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Need some ideas about how to handle The Waiting Game?

Today, I’m over at The Winged Pen for a post about what to do while you’re waiting. . . . . .for query responses, .

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Four Ways Writing a Novel is Different than Reading One

Reading is a collaborative and creative activity. The reader is in partnership with the writer, and they create an experience together. Writers are told to

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    • About TROUBLE WITH PARSNIPS
    • About LOST WITH LEEKS
    • About TROUBLE AT THE VALENTINE FACTORY
    • About UNDER PRESSURE WITH A SQUASH
    • About RULE TROUBLE: The Case of the Illegal Dragon
    • About TROUBLE AT THE CHRISTMAS FAIR
    • A collection of Seven Kingdoms Fairy Tales!
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    • About TROUBLE WITH PARSNIPS
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    • A collection of Seven Kingdoms Fairy Tales!
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