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Five Rules for a Successful Writers’ Group

September 12, 2013September 11, 2013 by Libby Fischer Hellmann

I’ve been in a writing group for 16 years. I joined way before I was published, and they deserve most of the credit for the fact that I did get published. It was in my group that I learned most of the craft of writing crime fiction as well as what works and what doesn’t. … Read more

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