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Here's advice on putting your awards to work. Backlist books lead your competition. How interactive study pumps up literature. Austin's main library might sell your books.

How your nonfiction improves when you're congenial. Use a popular tool to prepare for the novel writing month to come. A new contender to take over for Goodreads is on the rise.

Two veterans share experiences at home and abroad about the volunteer army of the 1970s.

On our debut podcast, Larry Brill talks about creating his latest novel, a story of a man who goes back to get the one girl who got away. Life can give you a do-over if you reach for it. His zany romantic comedy about a baby-boomer beaten down by life and obsessed with the past. He returns home to recreate his high school days with a second chance to win the heart of the one girl who got  away forty years ago.

In this Election Season episode of The Write Stuff from Austin's Writers Workshop, BookFunnel shows you how to create your reviewing team. Pay close attention to antagonists and make your books richer. To workshop better, learn to pose questions. You can listen to this newsletter when there's no time to read, plus you can subscribe to get notice of events and invitations through the email edition.

From Austin's Writers Workshop, the weekly Write Stuff. Your legacy project can look like a big payoff. Taking direct steps delivers a way to make a later-life debut. Even being a plankton-sized book makes you part of a food chain.

Shop for book recommendations at Amazon? Its tar pit of robo-knockoffs is right around every bend of the webpage. The AI robots are having their way. Robo-books, which do not violate copyright, are swamping genuine books. This is about whether any boat of a book is a blow-up toy — or something real, with a keel and a rudder for balance and a helm. Encouraging the reuse of content, simply by not protecting authors, is something a publisher would never do.