Stop Quoting Beyoncé in Your Book (Unless You’re Prepared to Pay Her Lawyers)

For reasons that remain a mystery to me—perhaps buried somewhere between karaoke and heartbreak—roughly 65% of the manuscripts I see come sprinkled with someone else’s song lyrics. I get it. Lyrics pack an emotional punch. They anchor us to an era, sketch a character’s mood, and set a scene with a single line. Unfortunately, they […]

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