Nancy Kotkin

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Nancy is Currently Reading

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Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century

by John Brookshire Thompson

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Secrets of Film Writing

by Tom Lazarus

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Blueprint Your Bestseller: Organize and Revise Any Manuscript with the Book Architecture Method

by Stuart Horwitz (Goodreads Author)

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“Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.”
― E.L. Konigsburg

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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“Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

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“Writers create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.”
― Orson Scott Card

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