Author: Kristyn J. Miller
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Moving over to Substack
Hi all, I wanted to make a quick post here on my blog to let everyone know that I am moving over to Substack. I haven’t exactly been diligent about maintaining this blog the last couple years, and having already made the decision to move my newsletter, it makes sense to consolidate rather than dividing…
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GIVEN OUR HISTORY release date, plus some writing updates
So. I’ve been a bit quiet since the release of SEVEN RULES FOR BREAKING HEARTS in mid-May. I’d like to say it’s because I’m taking a moment to soak in the fact that I’m finally a published author—at risk of sounding like a cliche, I’ve dreamed of this since I was fourteen or fifteen. But…
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SEVEN RULES, An Annotated Playlist
Hi, hello, and welcome to the annotated playlist for Seven Rules for Breaking Hearts! I am always a little nervous about sharing playlists. There’s no telling whether you guys will interpret the songs the same way I interpret them, so maybe they won’t feel as relevant to you. But it felt like a fun idea…
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COVER REVEAL
Hello, everyone! This is the first blog update in a while, but it’s an exciting one: I finally get to reveal the cover for my debut romantic comedy, SEVEN RULES FOR BREAKING HEARTS! Click here to pre-order now! Cover reveal below: Cover artist Maja Tomljanovic and jacket designer Olga Grlic did an amazing job putting…
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Debunking 6 Querying Myths
For several years toward the beginning of my writing career, I offered an array of freelance editing services to aspiring authors. One such service involved providing feedback on query letters based on my own successes and failures back when I was querying. In 2022 alone, I edited over 150 query letters, which helped me to…
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The Power of Specificity in Fiction
The internet is rife with tips and guides that tell aspiring writers how to write. Many writing “rules” are generally agreed upon (i.e., avoiding redundant adverbs, and the whole showing rather than telling issue). But from everything I’ve seen, one of the most overlooked and undervalued pieces of writing advice is “be more specific.” Specificity…
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7 Basic Query Letter Tips for Aspiring Fiction Authors
Back in December, when I started offering an editing service on Fiverr to help fellow writers fine-tune their query letters, I anticipated that most of the work would revolve around refining their pitch so that it sounded as interesting and marketable as possible. Instead, I found that a lot of people are missing out on…
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Meeting the Lindow Man
(warning: this article features an image of mummified human remains) In general, I don’t consider myself to be the morbid type. I’ve never had a particular fascination with death and the majority of exhibits centered around human remains–like Body Worlds, for example–fail to pique my interest. So a few years ago, when I started researching…
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