Micky Knight, a Bio

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Micky Knight, a Bio

Michele Antigone Knight, known to her friends as Micky, was born in the bayou country outside of New Orleans, Louisiana. She had a rough childhood, her mother was a teenager who hadn’t chosen to be pregnant and had little choice but to marry the man Micky considers her father, a man much older than her mother. But her mother wasn’t content to remain in the bayous married to a man she didn’t love and left when Micky was around five.

How not to impress an Editor

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How not to impress an Editor

A Few Modest Elements That You May Want to Take Into Consideration Ere Submitting a Manuscript for an Editor's Scrutiny 1. No, It's Not Okay to Email Your Four Hundred and Sixty-two Page Manuscript. Or even your fifty page first chapter. The gods of Office Depot do not give editors price breaks on printer paper, toner cartridges, etc.

Some Miscellaneous Notes on Mystery Writing

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Some Miscellaneous Notes on Mystery Writing

by J.M. Redmann The Most Important Thing The first rule--really the only rule, the one you can never break or get around, is that you have to do the work. A book doesn't get written in a burst of inspiration. A book gets written day after day, page by page by page. Sometimes it takes years and you will have to claw time out of your days when too many things already demand your time. The part of writing that's seen, open to public scrutiny--the book signings, readings, articles in the paper or on radio or TV--is about five percent of what an author does.

The Famous Redmann Family Oyster Dressing

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The Famous Redmann Family Oyster Dressing

Having on this day, December 25, 1998, once again succeeded in making the renowned Redmann family oyster dressing, half from memory and half from scribbled down notes, I am therefore, being of reasonably sound mind, setting down in writing, to the best of my ability, the secrets of the dressing.

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