Journalist turned author? Here’s where you’ll screw it up

LINK: www.niemanstoryboard.org ➚ | Posted by: Joshua Benton | December 16, 2011

Our sister publication Nieman Reports is out with its new issue, all about the intersections of journalism and book publishing. To go along with that issue, one of our other sister publications, Nieman Storyboard, had this smart post on the mistakes journos make when they transition to book-length work.

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