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What other people or information can help me in writing my book?

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Host: What other people or information can help me in writing my book?

James Frey: Well, we have mentioned the family, the friends, professional and personal acquaintances, depending on the type of book that you are writing another resource available to help you get started would be to look at extent documents that may reside if it's a biography in some of your family genealogical information, photographs, things of that nature that can give you some stimulus to your creative efforts on how you want to put this book together, but you have got human resources and you may have articles that you can refer to and utilize in your book assuming you will get permission from the person who wrote that article. That can also be a resource in helping you make the book that you want to write as good as it can be.

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