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knowing your reader

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The Importance of Knowing Your Reader

October 27, 2019 //  by Janet Grant//  7 Comments

Several years ago, I taught a workshop on the importance of knowing your reader. The attendees were multi-book published authors. So I posed this question to a few, random writers in the audience to answer aloud: Who is your reader?…

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3 flaws in your query that shout “beginner”

February 24, 2014 //  by Janet Grant//  54 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

Few experiences are more instructive about what-not-to-do in your writing than working your way through the queries and proposals editors or agents receive. I can’t make my stack of reading available to you, but I can …

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Be careful with generalizations in your writing

March 29, 2013 //  by Rachel Kent//  42 Comments

Blogger: Rachel Kent

I was flipping through a copy of CBA Retailers & Resources (April 2013) today and was drawn to an article about “The Nones.” This is the name given to young people between the ages of 18-29 who …

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