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How to Write a Best-Seller While Keeping Your Day Job!

A Step-By Step Manual of Success for Writers Who Want to Be Published but Don’T Have the Time - Do It Now!

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Don't have time to wait for mainstream publishers to discover your talent? Do something about it! Now!How to Write a Best-Seller While Keeping Your Day Job! offers a practical and fun outline for getting your book published. Born of the author's own arduous journey to publication and written with humor and passion, How to Write a Best-Seller While Keeping Your Day Job! is a practical tool for all ... Read more

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The Art of Fiction

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This classic guide, from the renowned novelist and professor, has helped transform generations of aspiring writers into masterful writers—and will continue to do so for many years to come.John Gardner was almost as famous as a teacher of creative writing as he was for his own works. In this practical, instructive handbook, based on the courses and seminars that he gave, he explains, simply and ... Read more

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