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Writing Coach Ann Kroeker leverages over 25 years of writing and editing experience in the publishing industry to equip her clients to reach their writing goals. A published author and coauthor, corporate and freelance writer, book editor, speaker, and poet, Ann has served on the editorial teams of two large online organizations and focuses on serving others in her role as a writing coach. Her clients have signed book contracts, been accepted into prestigious MFA programs, launched their own freelance writing businesses, and landed articles and essays in national publications. She coauthored On Being a Writer: 12 Simple Habits for a Writing Life that Lasts, and authored Not So Fast: Slow-Down Solutions for Frenzied Families and The Contempl ...more

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Don’t want to say it yourself? Put a frame around it!

Nathaniel Hawthorne starts The Scarlet Letter with a new surveyor scrounging around in the attic of an old custom-house.

This surveyor uncovers a piece of cloth and a manuscript, and the rest of the book tells the narrative contained in the manuscript.

That story within the story is one most high school students read in American Lit, about Hester Prynne, who had to walk around with the public shame

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	Not So Fast: Slow-Down Solutions for Frenzied Families 4.02 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Being a Writer: 12 Simple Habits for a Writing Life that Lasts by Ann Kroeker (Goodreads Author), Charity Singleton Craig (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Contemplative Mom: Restoring Rich Relationship with God in the Midst of Motherhood 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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