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TEN BASIC BUT IMPORTANT RULES FOR BEING AN AUTHOR

TEN BASIC BUT IMPORTANT RULES FOR BEING AN AUTHOR

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Sep 25, 2024
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  1. Never expect anyone to read your book, even if you sent it to them for free. Do all you can to keep yourself in a non-presumptive state that will lead to a feeling of pleasant surprise if a fellow human reads your book.

  2. Don’t let people whose job it is to think about the numbers that books sell influence your artistic decisions. If making artistic decisi…

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