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Goodreads asked Steven A. Roman:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Steven A. Roman Learn the tools of your trade by purchasing copies of the latest Webster's dictionary and the Chicago Manual of Style—they're the books every major publishing house sticks to. The quickest turnoffs for someone reading your work, especially an editor, are poor spelling and punctuation—typos are an annoying distraction—and terrible sentence structure. And do the research when you're unfamiliar with a subject you're writing about.

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