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Get ready to write your book: 5 tips on becoming an author

Poynter · Roy Peter Clark · last updated

My new book arrived on my doorstep today: “Writing Tools for the College Admissions Essay.”

If you are counting, that makes 21 books with my name on the cover as editor or author. But it is only with the last eight, published by Little, Brown, that I have identified myself as an author. Since 2006, more than a half million of my books have found their way into print. This includes digital books, audiobooks and translations into eight languages.

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