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Podcast: Essential Guide to Writing a Novel
Episode: Episode 110 - Book cover design, and regaining enthusiasm.
Description: Good advice about designing your own book cover; don't.  If you self-publish your novel don't ruin it with a do-it-yourself book cover.  Here are thoughts on why you should hire a pro designer. Also: why have we lost some enthusiasm for writing our novel, and how can we get it back?  And some of the loveliest sentences in literature.Here is a 20-episode master class on fiction writing—a start-to-finish course covering plot, characters, dialogue, scenes, sentence-level craft, and much more.  Each episode is focused and about 30 minutes.  The full class—all 20 episodes—is available now for a one-time pri...