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Nikesha Elise Williams

Four Women; The Appeal of Ebony Jones; Love Never Fails; Adulting; Lessons We Were Never Taught; Beyond Bourbon Street (African-American fiction, women’s fiction, literary fiction, poetry, NEW Reads Publications)

WHY SELF-PUBLISH? I spent months querying agents. Some sent back form rejections. Many didn’t respond at all.…

I remembered seeing an article from magazine about why writers should consider

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