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Back Issues of the Advanced Fiction Writing E-zine
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2008
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May 2008: Text or PDF: Managing Your Drafts. Your Novel's First Paragraph. Web Sites and Blogging, Part 4. Interview -- John Olson's Promotion Strategy.
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April 2008: Text or PDF: The World's Scariest Question. The Novelist's Dilemma. Web Sites and Blogging, Part 3. Interview -- Scratching that Niche.
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March 2008: Text or PDF: What Cool Writing Software Would You Like? Dissonant Nonverbal Communication in Fiction. Web Sites and Blogging, Part 2.
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February 2008: Text or PDF: Habits, Interruptions, and Achievements. Nonverbal Communication in Fiction. Web Sites and Blogging, Part 1.
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January 2008: Text or PDF: After You Set Goals, Then What? Five Steps To Continuous Improvement. The One Marketing Tool Every Writer Needs.
2007
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December 2007: Text or PDF: A Roadmap For Your Next Book. Self-Editing Your Fiction. Launching Your Book.
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November 2007: Text or PDF: Using Best Practices. Time Management for Writers. Interview With a Publicist.
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October 2007: Text or PDF: Treating Your StoryWorld Like a Character. Public Speaking To Market Your Fiction.
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September 2007: Text or PDF: A House-Of-Cards StoryWorld. Using Your Authority To Market Your Fiction.
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August 2007: Text or PDF: The Importance of StoryWorld. Those Brutal Numbers.
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July 2007: Text or PDF: Creating Characters--part 5. Marketing is About You.
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June 2007: Text or PDF: Creating Characters--part 4. Measuring Your Market.
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May 2007: Text or PDF: Creating Characters--part 3. Building Your Writing Platform Via SuperArticles. Do You Need a Critique Group?
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April 2007: Text or PDF: Anatomy of a Writing Conference (Special Report).
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March 2007: Text or PDF: Creating Characters--part 2. How To Have a Great Conference. Off-Topic and Yet Strangely Relevant.
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February 2007: Text or PDF: Creating Characters--part 1. On Writing Proposals--part 5. Anxiety and Writers.
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January 2007: Text or PDF: Planning Your Year. Are You Acting Like a Professional Writer? Taxes For Writers. On Writing Proposals--part 4. Tiger Marketing Is Dead!
2006
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December 2006: Text or PDF: Cruise Update. On Writing Proposals--part 3. How To Write a Fight Scene--part 3. Tiger Marketing -- How To Make Money Off Other People. The Death of Tiger Marketing as We Know It.
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November 2006: Text or PDF: Fiction 201 Announcement. Cruise Update. On Writing Proposals--part 2. How To Write a Fight Scene--part 2.
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October 2006: Text or PDF: Would You Like to Go On a Cruise? On Writing Proposals. Time Management for Writers--Summary. How To Write a Fight Scene.
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September 2006: Text or PDF: How to Find an Agent. Dialogue and the Art of War--part 5. Time Management--part 4. Tiger Marketing for Scaredy Cats.
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August 2006: There was no August e-zine because I was in the middle of relocating with my family halfway across the country.
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July 2006: Text or PDF: Avoiding Scammer Agents. Dialogue and the Art of War--part 4. Time Management--part 3. How to Write a Query Letter.
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June 2006: Text or PDF: Dialogue and the Art of War--part 3. Strategic Time Management--part 2. Tiger marketing--what does your reader see? The hazards of being famous.
May 2006: Text or PDF: Dialogue and the Art of War--part 2. Strategic Time Management. Tiger marketing--what's a metatag? Scenes and Sequels for multiple points of view.
April 2006: Text or PDF: Dialogue and the Art of War. Back pain and the working writer. Tiger marketing--when Google mistreats you.
March 2006: Text or PDF: Are you a Spammer? Privacy and the working writer. Tiger marketing--a real-life example. The brutal numbers on Google advertising.
February 2006: Text or PDF: Release of Fiction 101, tips on novel formatting, and analysis of Three Disaster Structure of The Merchant of Venice and also North by Northwest.
January 2006: Text or PDF: Protecting yourself from spam, a time-management tool, and all about the Three Disaster Structure, with examples from Pride And Prejudice and Pirates of the Caribbean.
2005
December 2005: Text or PDF: Announcing a new e-zine, a great site on PyroMarketing, and my thoughts on Tiger Marketing for prepublished writers.
November 2005: Text or PDF: A Tiger Marketing makeover, some thoughts on those pesky rules of fiction, and a couple of cool free web browser tools.
October 2005: Text or PDF: Tiger Marketing, a web site makeover, NaNoWriMo, and some ideas for how I'm thinking of expanding my range of services to my readers.
September 2005: In view of the havoc raised by Hurricane Katrina for many of my readers, I chose not to publish a September issue.
August 2005: Text or PDF: More MRUs chosen from Alice Sebold, plus a Tiger Marketing column on optimizing those pesky search engine keywords, with some thoughts on the famous Snowflake, and ruminations on life and death.
July 2005: Text or PDF: An intervew with Randy Ingermanson and an analysis of the MRUs in selected passages from Leif Enger and Audrey Niffenegger, plus an account of my first foray into Tiger Marketing.
June 2005: Text or PDF: An interview with Lee Silber and an analysis of the MRUs in selected passages from Tom Clancy, Dan Brown, and Michael Crichton.
May 2005: Text or PDF: An interview with Sue Brower, a tutorial on Those Pesky MRUs, my regular column on Tiger Marketing, and more . . .
April 2005: Text or PDF: An interview with Brandilyn Collins, Where Do Baby Ideas Come From?, Who Needs a List Provider?, Tiger Marketing, and more . . .
March 2005: Text or PDF: An interview with James Scott Bell, a Roadmap for Your Writing Career, an Introduction to Tiger Marketing, and more . . .
