Kristen Tsetsi wrote a new blog post: Page One Review: Gingham Blindfold by Eric Rohr

Page One Review is a review of a self-published book’s first page.  Read the first installment here.

First: This looks like two pages, but it equates to one full page of text. And it’s a cropped cut; [...]

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Kristen Tsetsi wrote a new blog post: Introducing: Page One Review – A Review of a Book's First Page

If you submit your book for review at SPR, you should understand that means the possibility of having the first page of your book critiqued in this column.
Don’t misunderstand: “critique” does not (only) mean “to criticize.”  I make no promises that some work won’t be criticized, but [...]

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Kristen Tsetsi wrote a new blog post: But,They Do Judge a Book by its Cover: An Interview with Book Designer Cathi Stevenson

Having been told more than once by reviewers that the cover for Homefront leaves much to be desired (one of them even said she passed over reading my book several times just because of the cover), it’s becoming increasingly clear that a book cover can have an enormous [...]

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Kristen Tsetsi wrote a new blog post: One of the Many Author Sins I'm Most Enjoying

I seem to have put myself in a sticky spot: I want to be represented by an agent and sold by a publisher, but I’ve committed the cardinal sin of self-publishing. All I can say to defend myself is that if I were to have waited for [...]

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