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Posts by Meg Latorre

How to Find Critique Partners & Beta Readers

February 6, 2020

How to Find Critique Partners & Beta Readers

February 6, 2020

Outside feedback is vital to the success of your manuscript. As I’ve quoted many times before on my YouTube channel, according to Terry Pratchett, “The first draft is just you…

Improve Your Novel Writing: 11 Tips For Newbies

November 14, 2019

Improve Your Novel Writing: 11 Tips For Newbies

November 14, 2019

Writing a novel is flipping difficult. It often takes years to complete your first novel (and even more years after that to write a good one). You heard that right…

Why Writers Shouldn’t Query Self-Published Books

August 8, 2019

Why Writers Shouldn’t Query Self-Published Books

August 8, 2019

Have you self-published a novel you had originally intended to send to literary agents (to see how it did)? Or, did you self-publish a novel, decide that publishing path wasn’t…

How Should I Publish My Book?

May 9, 2019

How Should I Publish My Book?

May 9, 2019

Do you aspire to write a book and be a published author one day? If so, you are not alone. According to Joseph Epstein, author, essayist, short-story writer, and editor,…

Why Querying Writers Shouldn’t Write Sequels

February 7, 2019

Why Querying Writers Shouldn’t Write Sequels

February 7, 2019

Querying writers have quite a few hurdles to jump through to secure literary representation. For those of you who don’t know what a query is or what I mean by…

How to Write More Words, aka, Winning at NaNo

November 8, 2018

How to Write More Words, aka, Winning at NaNo

November 8, 2018

With so many stories bouncing around in a writer’s mind, it likely comes as no surprise that most writers seek to write more—or to be more efficient in the time…