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    5 Reasons You Need a Beta Reader

    So, you have written your first draft and you are ready to send it off to some agents or off to print. You created the world’s greatest novel. A novel that will change the world. A novel that the public must read. Well, you know what… …that is great! Completing a novel is no small feat. It takes courage to write the first word then finish the first chapter, and an incredible amount of courage to finish the last chapter. Also, maybe you have written the world’s greatest novel. Your novel WILL change the life of someone who reads it. Novels speak to everyone in different ways.  However, before you…

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    Short Stories

    Echo

    When she woke, she didn’t know where she was, she didn’t know who she was, but it all felt familiar. It was cold and damp, and she couldn’t hear a thing but the painful ringing in her ears. She lay face down on a damp, shattered glass-filled, concrete ground. Bruised, battered, and cut in a dozen places. Her body was slow to respond to the commands of her mind. She hugged the wall until her legs regained their mobility. The hallway was filled with smoke and flickering overhead fluorescent lights. She couldn’t remember anything but small fragments that were fleeting in her memory like a dream escaping the woken mind.…