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Among North America’s most professionally produced author events, the 2015 Writer’s Digest Annual Conference dances into New York this week, as Manuscript WishList tells writers just what moves literary agents are looking for.

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Don’t come at me with what you say are examples of novel-craft that start, “Remember in that movie when Tom Hanks…”

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In his “Dirty Little Secrets” conference presentation, Writer’s Digest Publisher Phil Sexton tells authors to ask their publishers what support their books are getting — and what they can do to help.”

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Every Year, New Moves Staging national-class writers’ conferences has never been easy. Competing interests go with the territory. In the past, organizers could lose a lot of sleep over the question of “craft vs.