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How to Turn Your Articles into a Bestselling Book: A Step-by-Step Guide

How to Turn Your Articles into a Bestselling Book: A Step-by-Step Guide

This book will take us from understanding the nuts and bolts of writing to weaving your articles into a coherent and engaging manuscript ready for publication.

2023

Stories

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First Line Fiction

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Rick Allen

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2d ago

The Keeper

First Line Fiction Prompt #100

An elderly lighthouse keeper and a younger engineer carefully polish a large Fresnel lens together inside a historic lighthouse as warm afternoon light reflects through the glass.

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Fiction Shorts

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Rick Allen

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3d ago

The Polite Giraffe

The Vignette Gazette Edition #199 | dream

A warm summer evening in a lakeside park during a Fourth of July celebration. Families sit on blankets, children point excitedly toward colorful fireworks bursting over the water. Near the edge of a small grove of trees stands a gentle giraffe, his long neck rising gracefully above the branches. He isn’t the center of attention; only a few children have noticed him. His expression is thoughtful and kind, almost scholarly, as he quietly studies the fireworks like an art critic.

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Fiction Shorts

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Rick Allen

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3d ago

Bathroom Wisdom

Stress Reliever Drabble

A thoughtful owl perches on a bathroom towel rack in the early morning while quietly observing the room as though preparing to offer important advice.

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Dancing Elephants Press

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Rick Allen

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Jul 11

If We Draft It Too Soon

Some ideas arrive in a moment. Truth takes a little longer.

A writer sits quietly on a desert patio at sunrise, looking toward the Sonoran Desert while an open notebook and untouched pen rest beside a cup of coffee, suggesting reflection before writing.

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First Line Fiction

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Rick Allen

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Jul 10

The White Forest

First Line Fiction Prompt #99

A woman and her former teacher walk together beneath unusually white trees on a moonlit hillside as the teacher hands her a childhood drawing from a worn canvas bag.

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Dark Lore Digest

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Rick Allen

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Jul 4

The Honest Mirror

Every morning my reflection hesitated just a little longer

An elderly man stands before a bathroom mirror at dawn while his reflection lingers just slightly behind his movements, creating a subtle but deeply unsettling sense that the two are no longer the same person.

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Contemplate

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Rick Allen

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Jul 3

What the Desert Never Tried to Teach Me

I realized the desert had never agreed to become my teacher

A middle-age man walking a desert trail with Quail at his feet

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First Line Fiction

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Rick Allen

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Jul 1

The Conversations That Never Happened

First Line Fiction Prompt #98

A brother and sister sit together at a kitchen table, quietly reading a handwritten letter from an open shoebox filled with old envelopes. Morning light fills the room, with coffee mugs and a few family keepsakes nearby.

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Fiction Shorts

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Rick Allen

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Jun 29

The Song That Stole Monday

The Vignette Gazette Edition #193

A whimsical duck band performs beneath a town clock while an elderly woman whistles glowing musical notes that carry the days of the week across the sky. One duck in sunglasses secretly pockets a shining final note as the crowd applauds.

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First Line Fiction

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Rick Allen

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Jun 24

The Truth That’s Hard to See

First Line Fiction Prompt #97

A man pauses while sorting his late father’s belongings and studies an old family photograph, realizing there was more to his father than the story he had always believed.

Rick Allen

Rick Allen

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It is important to me that children develop character. I also write about Love, business, and the lifestyle of an Artist. I became a Portraitist in 1976.

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