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So, you’ve chosen to pursue traditional publication. Maybe you’ve already had success self-publishing and are looking to tackle the mainstream, or maybe your brand of literary fiction isn’t especially suited to the cutthroat Amazon marketplace – whatever the reason, you’re now in an unenviable position: facing the stern gatekeepers of the literary establishment. The next step is to decide …
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If genre fiction is Die Hard, The Notebook, and The Hangover – stuff you watch to relax and eat popcorn to – literary fiction is the opposite. It’s the Citizen Kane, The Pianist, the There Will Be Blood of the literary world – books you wouldn’t necessarily call a ‘good time’ but that are artistic, intelligent, and affecting on some deep level. To be lazy and reductive: literary fiction is a …
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When you think of LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, employers, and soon-to-be-graduating students desperate for a job, chances are you don’t think of writers, literary success, or even books. It’s difficult to imagine your target readership getting enthusiastic about their blossoming Network or spending hours trawling through market statistics (unless you’re writing business …
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Ta-Nehisi Coates’ story is an odd one. Until 2008, he was a modestly successful journalist writing for papers including The Washington City Paper and Time. But soon after, his Atlantic column and wildly successful blog culminated in the publication of his first memoir, The Beautiful Struggle. After attempting to pick up where celebrated author, essayist, and activist James Baldwin left off with …
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Welcome, jurors, to the second part of our guide to writing about the law. To briefly recap: the law is big, complicated, and dry, and it’s often mistreated and misrepresented in books, films, and on TV. Well, no more, I say. It’s time to turbocharge your murder mysteries, crime thrillers, and true crime with some basic legal knowledge. In part 1 (which you can read here), we talked about the …
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Law is one of the basic cornerstones of modern civilization, and its omnipresence is something to which most of us have grown used. Whether you have much contact with cops, lawyers, judges, and criminals or not, you’ll know enough about the ephemera and aesthetic of modern law to be able to conjure a hazy image of courtrooms, wigs, hammers, police officers, and warrants. But if you’re writing …
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