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Are You Ready to Embrace A Booklife? |
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12 | (2) |
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13 | (1) |
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13 | (1) |
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Further Resources: Booklifenow.com And Booklife.com |
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14 | (3) |
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The Pillars of Your Public Booklife |
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17 | (2) |
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Creating and Managing Goals |
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Mapping Your Future: Think Strategically Not Tactically |
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20 | (1) |
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20 | (4) |
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24 | (2) |
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26 | (1) |
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``How Am I Possibly Going To Keep Up With All of This?!'' |
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27 | (1) |
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28 | (6) |
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28 | (1) |
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Exploring Your Strengths and Weaknesses |
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29 | (2) |
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31 | (3) |
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34 | (9) |
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35 | (2) |
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37 | (1) |
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38 | (1) |
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38 | (2) |
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40 | (3) |
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Public Platform Example: The Blog |
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43 | (8) |
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43 | (1) |
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Temperament: Should You Release Your Inner Evil Monkey? |
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44 | (2) |
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The Tension Between Ego And Information |
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46 | (1) |
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Modeling And Content Development |
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46 | (1) |
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47 | (1) |
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48 | (2) |
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50 | (1) |
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Managing Your Involvement |
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51 | (8) |
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53 | (2) |
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Follow Through = Personal Integrity |
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55 | (1) |
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A Personal Space The Size of a Postage Stamp? |
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56 | (3) |
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Communicating Your Booklife |
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59 | (72) |
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59 | (9) |
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60 | (3) |
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63 | (1) |
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Overcoming Fear Of Contact |
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64 | (1) |
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65 | (3) |
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Dealing with Editors And Publicists |
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68 | (11) |
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A Covenant of Mutual Respect |
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68 | (3) |
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71 | (4) |
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Making Assumptions, And What You Can Do About It |
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75 | (4) |
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Understanding Creative PR |
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79 | (12) |
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79 | (3) |
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82 | (2) |
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84 | (7) |
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91 | (17) |
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92 | (1) |
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Conferences And Conventions |
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93 | (3) |
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96 | (6) |
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102 | (1) |
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103 | (2) |
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105 | (1) |
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106 | (2) |
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108 | (13) |
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108 | (7) |
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115 | (1) |
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115 | (3) |
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118 | (3) |
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121 | (3) |
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121 | (1) |
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Successful Example: ``The Situation'' |
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122 | (2) |
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124 | (5) |
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125 | (1) |
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126 | (3) |
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Five Minimum Elements For Success |
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129 | (2) |
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Maintaining Your Booklife |
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131 | (34) |
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131 | (4) |
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135 | (5) |
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135 | (1) |
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136 | (3) |
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139 | (1) |
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The Importance Of Persistence |
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140 | (3) |
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Paying It Forward/Community |
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143 | (2) |
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145 | (2) |
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Positive Survival Strategies |
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147 | (6) |
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Multi-Purposing The Public For The Private |
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147 | (1) |
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148 | (5) |
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BOOKLIFE GUT-CHECK: TOWARD PEACE OF MIND |
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153 | (2) |
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155 | (3) |
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155 | (1) |
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156 | (2) |
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Multitasking and Fragmenation |
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158 | (7) |
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158 | (1) |
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158 | (3) |
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161 | (4) |
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165 | (42) |
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The Pillars Of Your Private Booklife |
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165 | (3) |
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168 | (2) |
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170 | (2) |
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172 | (4) |
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Acknowledging The Passion |
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172 | (2) |
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174 | (2) |
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176 | (6) |
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The Subjectivity of Taste |
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176 | (1) |
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177 | (1) |
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178 | (4) |
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182 | (4) |
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Recognizing The Nature Of Distraction |
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182 | (2) |
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184 | (2) |
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Relinquishing All Fetishes |
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186 | (2) |
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188 | (7) |
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188 | (1) |
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Poking The Structure with a Stick |
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188 | (1) |
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Interrogating Your Characters |
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189 | (3) |
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192 | (3) |
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195 | (5) |
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195 | (2) |
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For Full-Time Writers (Bowing To Reality) |
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197 | (3) |
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200 | (3) |
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Do You Know The Difference? |
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200 | (1) |
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201 | (2) |
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203 | (4) |
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207 | (120) |
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207 | (3) |
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210 | (5) |
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211 | (1) |
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212 | (1) |
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213 | (2) |
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215 | (3) |
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215 | (2) |
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217 | (1) |
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218 | (4) |
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222 | (2) |
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224 | (2) |
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Support From Your Partner |
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226 | (2) |
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228 | (3) |
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231 | (2) |
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Appendix A: Additional Information On Relevant Roles |
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233 | (26) |
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233 | (11) |
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244 | (2) |
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246 | (3) |
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Marketing Versus Publicity |
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249 | (3) |
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252 | (7) |
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Appendix B: Content-Related |
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259 | (30) |
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Marketing/PR Campaign Summary (Example) |
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259 | (7) |
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266 | (2) |
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PR Plan (First Draft Example) |
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268 | (11) |
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279 | (3) |
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282 | (7) |
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Appendix C: Additional Notes on New Media |
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289 | (8) |
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289 | (2) |
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Reputation Management: Telling Your Story Before Someone Else Does |
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291 | (1) |
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Sipping From the Fire House: Online Search Tools |
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292 | (5) |
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Appendix D: Nurturing Creativity |
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297 | (16) |
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297 | (5) |
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302 | (2) |
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304 | (2) |
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Sacrifice: Without Hope, Without Despair |
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306 | (7) |
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Appendix E: How To Write A Novel In Two Months |
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313 | (10) |
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314 | (2) |
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316 | (6) |
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322 | (1) |
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Appendix F: Evil Monkey's Guide To Creative Writing |
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323 | (4) |
| Acknowledgments |
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327 | (2) |
| About The Author |
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Lisainfo e-raamatute kohta