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Always, always, ALWAYS check out the "source" of any promotional offers you get. Don't click links in the message. Go to your favorite search engine, look up the organization, and verify from there.
And if they ask for money? Run. #writingcommunity #writers

Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams - Writer Beware
A few weeks ago, I wrote about a rising and extremely prolific marketing scam that I’ve been able to trace back to operators in Nigeria. Using highly personalized (AI-generated) email solicitations that make it seem the sender (always with a Gmail address, always presenting as a marketing or PR expert) has really read the book,Read More

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25. How many works do you have in progress at a time?
26. How does your heritage show itself in your work?
27. How do you support your fellow writers?
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25. At most two to three. Usually no more than one. Not counting background ones where I accumulate snippets without actively writing.
26. I don't like the word much. But I believe my cu…

I’ve been getting beta reader feedback on my #novel and it’s the most magical thing hearing how other people have formed their own relationships to and feelings towards my characters.
I made up these characters in my own mind, they didn’t exist a few months ago, and now they are real to not just me but other living, breathing humans.
Artistic creation feels like one of the closest ways we have of approaching a sense of something almost divine.
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20. Name something unexpected you had to learn for a work.
21. What's something essential to your process you think other writers should try?
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20. Lots.
Structure of a frigate. Perspective long-range spaceship engines. Crash course for paramedics. Indian tales for kids. Cancer cell biology. Medieval iron smelting. Herbal alcohol. Chicken fo…

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16. What was the hardest writerly lesson for you to learn? Or unlearn?
17. Should modern writers worry about proving their work is not generated by an LLM?
18. Have you written something blasphemous? Tell us about it.
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16. How to cut words and squeeze myself into character limits.
That's why I generally do not set character limits.

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10. What encouragement would you give writers younger than yourself?
11. If you could banish one trope for a century, which would you choose?
12. What kinds of love appear in your writing?
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10. You have lots of essays and structured metamaterials. Power of the Sun at your fingertips. Enjoy.
...I would love some encouragement myself.
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