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New Voice in Town by JoDee Neathery
Social Media by Edie Melson
Call in the Whistleblower by Shelly Frome
Book Proposal Boot Camp by W. Terry Whalin
Poetry Matters by Sara M. Robinson
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6 Dramatic Considerations Building Blocks of a Script by Leigh Ann Thomas
8 Writing a Family Heritage by Dennis L. Peterson
9 Using Color to Sell More Books by p. m. terrell
10 Deborah Malone – Broken Beginnings
12 Leslie Gould – The Word Sky
15 Andrea Boeshaar – From Novels to Novellas and Back
16 9 Tips for Writing Steampunk by Bokerah Brumley
17 Honest and Transparent by James N. Watkins
18 What’s the Appeal of Southern Novels? by T. M. Brown
20 Thinking Like a Kid by Tracy Bryan
24 How Mourning Dove Took Flight by Claire Fullerton
26 Steve Bradshaw – New Ways to Hunt Monsters
27 C. Hope Clark – Push Buttons to Write That Colorful Dialogue
28 Joanna Weaver – Living in a Wind Tunnel of Words
30 Writing Games by Sylvia Ney
32 Laura Vosika – Time Travel Adventures, Mysteries and Miracles
34 Amy Lillard – Saved by Love
35 Connie Jordan Green – Poet/Teacher/Writer/Friend
36 What I Like About Writing by Leslie Hachtel
Southern Writers
July/August 2018
Volume 8 Issue 4
ISSN 2333-3189 (Print)
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James N. Watkins
T. M. Brown
Tracy Bryan
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Sylvia Ney
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