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How to Get Back to Your Abandoned Book in 3 Easy (Kinda Hard) Steps

When life happens, writing doesn’t. Here, author Denise Massar offers three tips on how to get back to your abandoned...
https://www.writersdigest.com/be-inspired/how-to-get-back-to-your-abandoned-book-in-3-easy-kinda-hard-steps

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The Week in Libraries: Archive 2023

An annual archive of PW's library columns The Week in Libraries, updated...
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/91474-the-week-in-libraries-archive-2023.html

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WD Presents: A New Webinar, Our Romance Writing Virtual Conference, and More!

This week, we're excited to announce a new webinar, our romance writing virtual conference, and...
https://www.writersdigest.com/resources/wd-presents-a-new-webinar-our-romance-writing-virtual-conference-and-more

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Inspirational Indie Author Interview: Maryann Reid. Women’s Fiction Writer Leaves Traditional Publisher, Finds Her Lost Voice

My ALLi author guest this episode is Maryann Reid, who writes women's fiction aimed at an African American audience, and she found success with that formula at St. Martin's Press for a decade. Then the economic downturn happened in 2008, and she ha...
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/inspirational-indie-author-interview-maryann-reid/

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2023 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 5

Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today's prompt is to write about the...
https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-fiction/2023-february-flash-fiction-challenge-day-5

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Remembering innovative fashion designer Paco Rabanne

Spanish fashion designer Paco Rabanne has died at 88 years old, according to his fashion house. He was known for his fragrances and space-age...
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/04/1154541823/remembering-innovative-fashion-designer-paco-rabanne

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Berklee Indian Ensemble's expansive, star-studded debut album is a Grammy contender

Ten years ago, Annette Philip found her homeland's rich culture was underrepresented at the prestigious school. So she started a massive collective that's taken on a life of its...
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/04/1153871250/berklee-indian-ensemble-grammy-shuruaat

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Funny You Should Ask: What to Ask Before Signing With a Literary Agent

Literary Agent Barbara Poelle gives advice about the kinds of questions to ask a literary agent before signing with them in this column from the Jan/Feb 2023 issue of Writer's...
https://www.writersdigest.com/be-inspired/funny-you-should-ask-what-to-ask-a-literary-agent-before-signing

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The Ebook To An Audiobook With AI Narration Is Coming

Here comes a game changer in self-publishing. Ebook to audiobook production using AI or digital narration is starting. While it’s early days yet, Apple and Google are now offering AI (artificial intelligence)
The post The Ebook To An Au...
https://justpublishingadvice.com/ebook-to-an-audiobook/

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Wait Wait' for Feb. 4, 2023: With Not My Job guest Billy Porter

Billy Porter is a legend who's just an Oscar away from an EGOT. His new movie is 80 for Brady, but what does he know about The Brady Bunch?...
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/04/1154307069/wait-wait-for-feb-4-2023-with-not-my-job-guest-billy-porter

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Shlomo Perel, a Holocaust survivor who inspired the film 'Europa Europa,' dies at 98

Shlomo Perel, who survived the Holocaust through surreal subterfuge and an extraordinary odyssey that inspired his own writing and an internationally renowned film, has died in...
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/04/1154495888/shlomo-perel-holocaust-survivor-dies-europa

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Art of the Schmooze

https://farkascity.org/nlowell/art-of-the-schmooze

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A Ukrainian photojournalist reflects on documenting a year of war

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Evgeniy Maloletka, an Ukrainian photojournalist, about what it's been like documenting a year of war in his...
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/04/1154473971/a-ukrainian-photojournalist-reflects-on-documenting-a-year-of-war

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Poetry finally has its own Grammy category – mostly thanks to J. Ivy, nominee

Poet J. Ivy is a nominee for the Grammys' Best Spoken Word Poetry Album award — a new category he helped create, after petitioning the Recording...
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/04/1154227714/poetry-finally-has-its-own-grammy-category-mostly-thanks-to-j-ivy-nominee

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A Wife of Bath 'biography' brings a modern woman out of the Middle Ages

Dreamed up by Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales more than 600 years ago, the Wife of Bath was known for her lusty appetites, gossipy asides and fondness for wine....
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/04/1146691833/wife-of-bath-canterbury-tales-chaucer

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DK Nnuro on his debut novel 'What Napoleon Could Not Do'

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with writer DK Nnuro about his debut novel, "What Napoleon Could Not Do," which looks at differences between how African Americans and Black immigrants view the...
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/04/1154474027/dk-nnuro-on-his-debut-novel-what-napoleon-could-not-do

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Thomas Mallon on his new novel 'Up With The Sun'

NPR's Scott Simon talks with author Thomas Mallon. His new novel, "Up With The Sun," draws on the real life, and murder, of a stage and screen actor from the 1950's and...
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/04/1154473985/thomas-mallon-on-his-new-novel-up-with-the-sun

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Activist Alice Wong reflects on 'The Year of the Tiger' and her hopes for 2023

In the Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life, Alice Wong shares pieces of her story and experience as a disabled Asian American through a collection of essays, interviews, photos and illustra...
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/04/1153937530/activist-alice-wong-lunar-new-year-year-of-the-tiger-rabbit

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Before 'Hrs and Hrs,' Muni Long spent years and years working for others

The Grammy-nominated R&B artist made her name in the music industry as a songwriter. It took a career pivot for her to write a hit song for...
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/04/1151332344/2023-grammy-awards-nominee-muni-long

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Fans said the future of 'Dungeons & Dragons' was at risk. So they went to battle

When Dungeons & Dragons fans saw a leaked draft of proposed changes to the game's copyright license, the backlash against publisher Wizards of the Coast was so severe it reversed course....
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/04/1154247737/fans-said-the-future-of-dungeons-dragons-was-at-risk-so-they-went-to-battle