When I finished the first draft of my memoir Another Cheesy Family Newsletter, in February of 2018, I didn’t have the slightest idea how to move my book from the screen of my laptop onto printed pages that multiple readers could digest and ponder. I didn’t know anything about editing or beta readers or query letters or publicists or any of the multi-faceted aspects of spreading my words, in an orderly fashion, throughout the country and even the world. Nor did I know that 1

Every writer lives for reviews. For the fledgling writer, anxious to establish herself in the literary world, a good review is a small step forward in her career pathway. Reviews are the professional writer’s bread and butter…literally. The more reviews a writer receives on Amazon, for example, the higher the book climbs in Amazon’s ratings, resulting in more exposure, resulting in more sales, etc. etc. But even the indie author who writes and publishes for the pure pleasu

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