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"Optimized for aspiring writers eager to publish The Great American Novel, this first installment of The Diction Dude Essential Guides series surveys the literary publishing industry. It offers key industry statistics and prompts people to think about their goals in light of the different, and conflicting, stakeholder incentives within the industry. The book includes a year-long Get Fit to Print framework that resembles a couch-to-5K program. It presents ""50 informed suggestions"" for novel-writing and practical advice about finding -- and thriving within -- a strong critique group."

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Jason Gillikin is the founder and CEO of Lakeshore Literary -- a small traditional and hybrid Midwestern publisher and specialty book distributor -- and the president of Diction Dude, an author-consulting and freelance writing-and-editing agency. Gillikin got his start as a newspaper columnist, working up the ranks until he earned appointment as editor-in-chief of a daily community broadsheet. He's freelanced as a writer and editor for several national media corporations, where his content earned more than 4 million distinct impressions on the Web and he coached several hundred general-assignment writers. Simultaneously, he's the founder of the Grand River Writing Tribe, a small writers' collective in the heart of West Michigan. He earned a degree in theoretical and practical ethics and quantitative political science from Western Michigan University. In his free time, he is an avid hiker, scuba diver, and cat butler.

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