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Paula Eykelhof is an Editorial Consultant offering authors expert insight on writing craft.
May 7, 202122 min read
Marketing Tips Part 2 - Paula Eykelhof, Retired Harlequin Executive Editor with Successful Authors
Welcome to the second part of our discussion about promoting your book! In the previous blog, authors Anne Marie Duquette, Elizabeth...
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Paula Eykelhof is an Editorial Consultant offering authors expert insight on writing craft.
Mar 17, 202122 min read
Marketing Tips-Paula Eykelhof in Conversation with Successful Authors
Tell the World! Your book’s ready to go. The writing and rewriting, the careful reviewing, the professional editorial work—it’s all done....
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Paula Eykelhof is an Editorial Consultant offering authors expert insight on writing craft.
Feb 5, 202130 min read
Animals in Fiction
“Love me, love my dog—and my cat, horse, rabbit, parrot…” For a writers’ conference some years ago, an award-winning author, Kate James,...
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Paula Eykelhof is an Editorial Consultant offering authors expert insight on writing craft.
Feb 5, 202118 min read
Avoiding Cliché
This discussion is based on a panel author Geri Krotow and I did at an RWA conference in 2013. With regard to cliché things haven’t...
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What About Research?
In a previous blog, I shared my belief that one of the great pleasures of genre fiction is a story’s background. Its setting. That can...
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Paula Eykelhof is an Editorial Consultant offering authors expert insight on writing craft.
Feb 4, 202112 min read
Practical Tips for Writers
Our previous blogs have been more focused on theory and story issues. This time, we thought that, based on our combined experience and...
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Thinking About Genre
Do you remember opening high school essays with a definition? It worked back then so why not now? Let’s start with that. Genre refers to...
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Paula Eykelhof is an Editorial Consultant offering authors expert insight on writing craft.
Feb 3, 202114 min read
The Role of Setting - A Discussion with Ann Defee and Linda Cardillo
I often say that setting—a strong and vivid sense of place—is one of the particular delights of genre fiction. Needless to say, it’s...
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Paula Eykelhof is an Editorial Consultant offering authors expert insight on writing craft.
Jan 28, 20216 min read
Your Story—Where to Start? How to Start?
Begin as You Mean to Go On. That’s usually good advice in life—and in writing. Be Consistent A noticeable (and unintentional) discrepancy...
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