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September 18, 2017
The #Bestseller Fever…
I’ve had a number of posts here exploring the phenomenon of the bestseller…
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Two that seem like good entrées to the reporting I decided to do today are:
What Is a #Bestseller, Really? And, Should an Author Try to Write One?
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Why Trying to Write a Bestseller Is Bad for Your Mental Hygiene
Here are just a few excerpts from those posts:
“…I feel that beginning the process of writing a book with the dream of it becoming a bestseller is going to make the writer, consciously or subconscio...
September 17, 2017
Editing as creative development – guest post at Ingram Spark
Reblogging Roz Morris is a great honor…
Good developmental editing is one of the cornerstones of book production, but indie authors have a special advantage over the traditionally published. Indies can use the editing process to nurture their potential and perhaps find talents they didn’t suspect. I’m talking about this role of the editor at the IngramSpark blog today.
And if you’re in the environs of London, you can come and see me talk about this in a one-day self-publishing...
September 16, 2017
Getting Personal by Barbara Dee
All I’ll say about today’s re-blog is:
KidLit is something all writers should become aware of…
HALFWAY NORMAL is out this month, and I’m getting nervous.
Not for the usual reasons (“Will they like this book? Will it sell?”). What I’m nervous about is the public-appearance piece, especially the inevitable questions about my son’s health.
When I first thought of writing this book, I made a deal with my son: I’d never discuss his health in public. We made this deal to protect hi...
September 15, 2017
Friday Story Bazaar ~ Tale Sixty-One
“So… What if there’s a life after this one on Earth?”
by
Alexander M Zoltai
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“So what, if there’s a life after this one on Earth?”
“Joe, that’s not what I said—I said, ‘So, what if there’s a life after this one on Earth?’.”
“Right Pete, and I said, ‘So what?’.”
“Can’t even have a decent discussion with ya on this one, eh?”
“What discussion—discussing means it might be true.”
“Well, it might…”
“Says you.”
“I think it’s like backing up your files on a computer…”
“Some other life is l...
September 13, 2017
Oh, the Places We’ll Go—Research Adventures of Six Children’s Book Authors! by Heather Lang
Today’s re-blog may seem like it’s only for folks with kids…
Check out this statement about the author:
She “…loves to research and write about real women who overcame extraordinary obstacles and never gave up on their dreams.”
There are few experiences as magical as getting lost in a book. How do authors go about crafting that mesmerizing experience for their readers? For starters, the people, places, and emotional journey of a book must feel authentic. To achieve that authen...
#SelfPublishing Decisions . . .
There’s no way I could write a post (or, series of posts) that would capture all the decisions you could make in a self-publishing career… [image error]
Though you could delve into most of the important options by taking this Free Course…
The reason you could never discover all the options? The selfpublishing landscape is always changing.
If you were to click on these links {from the Top-Tags widget in the left side-bar} for the archives of my posts about selfpublishing or self-publishing (even the word i...
September 12, 2017
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Social Media
As regulars of this blog know, I’ve certainly had my share of angst about social media…
Today’s re-blog should be read critically (even though it’s humorous) because there’s much to ponder…
By Kathy Stevenson
This past November I took the plunge and jumped headlong into social media. Of course I already had a personal Facebook account for friends and family, but professionally I was way behind the curve. I didn’t have a blog, nor did I tweet. Whenever I had someth...
September 11, 2017
#Novels & #Novelists
[image error] Warning…
This post is more like homework than a news broadcast…
I’m dealing with complete uncertainty about the status of family members in Florida (…due to hurricane Irma…).
So…
Instead of pulling excerpts from the articles I had planned for today, I’m going to show you the articles and only sketch-out the connections between them…
You get to read them and make further deductions—perhaps you’ll leave your thoughts in the Comments…
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The first two articles are both from Aeon and the titles...
September 9, 2017
“Changing the World, One Wall at a Time”
[image error] There is an Endeavor that offers education to folks in Iran who are not permitted to attend college—they are Bahá’ís and it is their religion that the government hates, their religion which draws massive persecution to some of the most peaceful folks on our planet…
The Endeavor is Education is #NotACrime and it promotes the Bahá’í Institute for Higher Education, which offers Internet courses and college credit to folks who are kept out of their country’s schools…
#NotACrime has spawned a wor...
September 8, 2017
Friday Story Bazaar ~ Tale Sixty
“It’s all that really matters…”
by
Alexander M Zoltai
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Some of you may think I gave up a good thing…
But, good always depends on the angle of perception…
Sure, there’s nothing inherently wrong with owning things, even many fine things; but, I’d become a slave to my things…
I suppose I’m writing this to warn others who may feel their things aren’t possessing them…
I had more than “many others” and less than “some others”.
I had a median amount of things—house, car, decent computer, cl...
