“Meh.” The ending just didn’t do it for me.
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January 31, 2014
Using Citation Machine for Citations in Non-Fiction Manuscripts - Project Gutenberg Image

While a great first chapter may interest acquisitions editors in reading your full manuscript, your last chapter may determine whether you get a contract offer or not. Reader dissatisfaction with the ending is the kiss of death to book sales. Perhaps you’ve even put down some of these books that have very well crafted first chapters that landed them a book contract but couldn’t sustain… [Read More]

Chapter One. Page One. The good, the bad, and the cliché.
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January 24, 2014

The Pew Research Center reported last week that one in four American adults had not read a single book in the past year. The number of non-book readers has nearly tripled since 1978. If you want someone to read your book, you know it has to be good. Better than good. The 18-29 year old demographic is the most likely age group to have read… [Read More]