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The Ultimate Guide to Worldbuilding in Fiction Writing

Is What Makes Good Writing Just an Opinion?

Fantasy Book Review: The High Priestess by Val Tobin

How to See Edits in Word Documents

Finding an Editor You Can Trust

Review of ‘The Guild Codex Spellbound Series’ by Annette Marie

Writing Historical Fiction: An Author Interview

Women’s Fiction Review: Red Rain by Lara Bernhardt

Historical Fiction Book Review: The Second Life of Mirielle West

Book Review – Dog Leap Stairs by Barbara Scott Emmett

How to Use Present Participles Correctly at the Beginning of a Sentence

An Interview With Author Catherine Ryan Hyde

6 Benefits from Turning Your Book Into An Audiobook

Book Review The Keeper of Happy Endings by Barbara Davis

How to Put Your Book on Goodreads

Review of ‘Seven Perfect Things’ by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Watch for the Difference Between a Present Participle and a Gerund, also a Participle Adjective

3 Little-Known Writing Mistakes: Avoid them and Improve Your Prose

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Fantasy Book Review: The High Priestess by Val Tobin

The High Priestess: Persephone’s Return is the third book in Val Tobin’s Tales from the Unmasqued World Series, and in it she deepens and expands the stories from the previous two book. The book has two central story arcs based around characters we’ve met before. One arc follows Kelsey (a human) who is with Josh […]

The Ultimate Guide to Worldbuilding in Fiction Writing

Is What Makes Good Writing Just an Opinion?

Fantasy Book Review: The High Priestess by Val Tobin

How to See Edits in Word Documents

Finding an Editor You Can Trust

Review of ‘The Guild Codex Spellbound Series’ by Annette Marie

Writing Historical Fiction: An Author Interview

Women’s Fiction Review: Red Rain by Lara Bernhardt

Why Self-Publish?

Historical Fiction Book Review: The Second Life of Mirielle West

What Makes a Good Editor

Book Review – Dog Leap Stairs by Barbara Scott Emmett

How to Use Present Participles Correctly at the Beginning of a Sentence

An Interview With Author Catherine Ryan Hyde

6 Benefits from Turning Your Book Into An Audiobook

Book Review The Keeper of Happy Endings by Barbara Davis

How to Put Your Book on Goodreads

Review of ‘Seven Perfect Things’ by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Watch for the Difference Between a Present Participle and a Gerund, also a Participle Adjective

3 Little-Known Writing Mistakes: Avoid them and Improve Your Prose

Seven of my novels have an Awesome Indies Seal of Excellence

Four of my books earned BRAG Medallions

I abide by the ethical author code

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Seven of my novels have an Awesome Indies Seal of Excellence

Four of my books earned BRAG Medallions

I abide by the ethical author code

Copyright

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