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This week, we congratulate two writers: Michael Jan Friedman on the upcoming release of Aztlan: The Courts of Heaven , a sequel to his novella, Aztlan: The Last Sun and also Shelli Johnson for recently winning a silver medal from the Military Writers Society of America for her novel, Small as a Mustard Seed!  Then Shelli tells us to write like a mother*****!  David Gaughran reports on a new effort to fill bookshelves in school libraries.  From Kristen Lamb, we get parts 6 and 7 of her lesson on Structure while Kristine Kathryn Rusch concludes her dissertation on why writers sometimes pop off.  

Veronica Sicoe doesn't think much of Amazon's new author rankings, Dean Wesley Smith tells us that good storytelling sells perhaps better than all the promotion in the world and Writer Unboxed provides excellent advice on writing dialogue, villains and henchmen, platform building and new ways to find publishing success.


Fill the Shelves - A Great New Initiative to Help Underfunded School Libraries by David Gaughran

Maybe You Wrote a Good Book by Dean Wesley Smith

Structure Part 6 - Getting Primal and Staying Simple   and Part 7 - Genre Matters by Kristen Lamb

Why Writers Disappear (Part Three) by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Small as a Mustard Seed Wins MWSA Silver Medal for Literary Fiction by Shelli Johnson

Write Like a Mother******* by Shelli Johnson

Amazon's Author Ranking and Why It Means So Little by Veronica Sicoe

10 Tips for Writing Impactful Dialogue by Catherine McKenzie

Sidekicks and Henchmen by Sophie Masson

The New Path to Writing Success by Jon Bard

Building Your Platform--How Much is Enough? by Chuck Sambuchino

Aztlan: The Courts of Heaven to be Released in November by Michael Jan Friedman