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    Sep 18, 2019 1 minute

    is a 40-time-award-winning author of romance and women’s fiction. Her debut novel was a HOLT Medallion finalist, a Publishers Weekly BookLife Prize semifinalist, and an Independent Publisher Book Awards medalist. Blades helps authors overcome marketing barriers by exposing harmful myths and teaching them, , and . She writes a column on social media for the Romance Writers of America Romance Writers Report and runs an author advice portal on

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