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Best Sellers Are Wrong!

You’ve got to fake it to make it in publishing. Want to write a best seller? Make up a compelling story that seems to conform to/explain reality! Who cares if it’s real?? It works in memoir and fiction as well as books about social networking.

Scott Lamb
posted about 3 years ago

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