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Mugging the Muse: Writing Fiction for Love and Money

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This long-time best-seller at Booklocker.com is now available as a free download. It contains many of the articles and workshops from this site, plus three articles written especially for the book: My Five Worst Career Mistakes and How You Can Avoid Them, Ten Keys to Designing a Series Character You Can Live With (Forever), and How to Make Every Story Better Than the Last.

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My award-winning first* novel is available in its entirety in a variety of formats for free download, or for reading online. No strings, no catch. Thanks to Jim Baen for giving the go-ahead to make this available, and to Eric Flint and the folks at Baen for doing the hard work of getting it formatted and online.

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