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How Not to Write a Book

  • Carol SallerCarol Saller
  • August 1, 2011

I’m guest blogging today at Clara Gillow Clark‘s children’s book blog, launching Eddie’s War and telling about how I got into trouble writing it.

Come on over!



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Welcome to My New Home!

Please feel free to let me know if you encounter anything that broke in transit.

Most-Visited Posts

  • Double Punctuation
  • Formatting Texts in Fiction
  • Wannabe Editors: Can You Pass a Proofreading Test?
  • Counting Pages or Words in a Manuscript Submission
  • Does Your Novel Need a Table of Contents?
  • When Characters Speak: Formatting Dialogue
  • Copyediting Quiz, Part 1
  • Copyediting Quiz, Part 2: First Do No Harm
  • How to Reorganize Book Chapters with a Click
  • Editing Quotations for Style, Rule 1: Don't
  • When Your Novel Quotes a Real Source
  • How to Edit Blurbs
  • "Hazel and I's puppy"? When Fiction Meets Bad Grammar
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