martha conway Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/tag/martha-conway/ Sun, 28 Aug 2016 20:06:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 How to Break Up with your Novel https://booksbywomen.org/how-to-break-up-with-your-novel-by-martha-conway/ https://booksbywomen.org/how-to-break-up-with-your-novel-by-martha-conway/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2015 12:49:04 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=12897 To begin with, let me clarify: I don’t mean abandon your novel; I mean separate yourself from it. This has to happen eventually. For better or worse the novel you’ve written will come to term, and it will have to live (or not live) on its own, away from you. There may be any number […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/how-to-break-up-with-your-novel-by-martha-conway/feed/ 8 12897 How many Beta Readers do you need? https://booksbywomen.org/how-many-beta-readers-do-you-need-by-martha-conway/ https://booksbywomen.org/how-many-beta-readers-do-you-need-by-martha-conway/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:15:19 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=12586 Someone in my writing group recently sent his first chapters to five different people … and got five very different responses. The result: he’s more confused than ever. Beta readers—those readers you trust your manuscript to before sending it out to an agent, editor, or publishing house—can give valuable feedback. They read with more distance […]

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