Confused about how to use quotations in your manuscript? Here is a primer on the difference between pull quotes, display quotes, block quotes, and epigraphs.
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The Lowdown on Appendixes/ Appendices
Sometimes nonfiction authors get confused about appendices: what they are, how to do them, when they are needed … and how to spell them! An appendix is supplementary material (usually an article, form, or list) that an author adds to the back of the book. It can be anything you want your readers to …
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I recently struck up a friendship with a first-time author I met in an online writers’ forum. He had written a YA novel that was soon to be published by a small publishing house. He hoped it would be the first of a trilogy …
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