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Book Club Babble welcomes author Helen Reese and talks about her experiences as a first-time novelist and self-published writer.  Helen, thank you for being here with us today.  First of all, tell us about yo... Read More...

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Clichés may be the bane of good writing, but sometimes there’s no easier way to say I wish I had more time to read, than, well, I wish I had more time to read. I don’t even wonder where the time went, because I... Read More...

Is There Gender Bias in Publishing? A Female Writer’s Pseudonym Experiment

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Catherine Nichols wrote an interesting article about querying her novel first under her own name, and then under a man’s name, as a kind of scientific experiment. The results were depressing: the "male" writer received 17 requests out of 50 queries sent, and t... Read More...

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