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7 Habits of the Successfully Published, Part 5: Empathy

Successful authors exhibit a great deal of empathy for their readers. When an author writes with empathy–from the reader’s perspective–readers feel that the book was “written for me!”

This empathy can generate decades of reader loyalty; loyalty that may be far out of proportion to the value of the information contained in the book.

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