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50 Reasons No One Wants to Publish Your First Book
bookgasm.com - 3/14/2009
50 Reasons No One Wants to Publish Your First Book
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1. Being innovative doesn’t justify writing a Civil War epic entirely in texting slang and emoticons: “ts u hor! i dnt gv dam :

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[links] Link salad is grooving all week with you
Lakeshore — io9 comments on METAtropolis 50 Reasons No One Wants to Publish Your First Book — (Thanks to squirrel_monkey.) Wall Street Journal on Twitter — Snurched from scalzi, who is quoted therein. Periodic table of the typefaces — Mmmm. From Treat to Threat: Scottish Chocolate Tax Defeated — What a difference an /h/ makes. Dolley Madison Fail Cakes — Scrivener's ...

March 16, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker — ... Rant. Catherynne M. Valente on Let Me Tell You A Story. Joshua Palmatier on Writing First Person POV. Angel Leigh McCoy on You know you want to meet these gorgeous writers! ... Rachel Aaron on Wikis. Awesome. Editors Unleashed on 10 Agents Open to Queries. Matt Cheney on Race and Culture and Writing and Stuff. Juliette Wade on Striving for Perfection. Allan Mott on 50 Reasons No One Wants to Publish Your First Book. Paul S. Kemp on The Fetish of ...

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