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September 13, 2024
Publishing on Lulu and Amazon – Lisa Shea Low Carb Books
If you publish paperback books and ebooks, you’ll want to consider all the most popular and effective options for both formats. Here’s a view into how this works. I first started publishing my 13 low carb books back around 2000, when I began writing online about my experiences with the low carb diet system. At
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September 6, 2024
Free Writing and Marketing Seminar Series – October 2024
In October 2024 I’m running a FREE writing and marketing seminar series in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. You can attend just one session if you wish, or as many as appeal to you. I cover all stages of writing, editing, marketing, publicity, social networking, and much, much more. Contact me with any questions! Thank you to the
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August 30, 2024
The Street by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis
We are at story eleven in the H. P. Lovecraft library. It’s really important to have a good understanding of United States History before you begin this. Lovecraft is in essence playing a game of ‘know the era based on the fashion’. Also, it’s good to know that right when Lovecraft wrote this, in 1919,
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Polaris by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis
It’s story ten in the Lovecraft world! I enjoy the story immensely. The racist aspects of it? Those are of course completely unnecessary. Let’s take a look. The main character is living a hum-drum life in a cottage at the edge of a swamp. There’s a cemetery nearby. He can’t sleep at night, and mostly
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August 28, 2024
Nyarlathotep by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis
I’m now on Lovecraft story number 9! We have gone from delightful revenge stories featuring fishy-people and cats. Our new story is about dark, unfathomable cosmic horror. Perfect. Our main character, we’ll call him Z, tells us right from the beginning that he is alone and the world is lost. Then he takes us back
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The Cats of Ulthar by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis
OK this makes it two Lovecraft stories in a row which are supposedly horror but which I read with great pleasure as a justified and wholly appreciated result. Hmmm. I’m not sure this says good things about my morals … In The Cats of Ulthar we are hearing a tale about a ‘nearby town’ Ulthar,
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The Doom That Came to Sarnath by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis
Lovecraft wrote The Doom That Came to Sarnath only a short while after his mother was sent into an asylum. While Lovecraft was 30 at the time, he had lived his entire life with his mother, so this was an extra-traumatic event for him. It’s no wonder he is now writing about a completely doom-driven
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August 27, 2024
The Statement of Randolph Carter by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis
Lovecraft was 29 years old and living with his mother. He’d lived with her his entire life. And then … she was committed to an asylum. He was all alone for the first time ever. He had a nightmare. It involved a friend, and in this dark dream the two of them went at night
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Optimizing Book Covers for Sales – Examples
I often talk about how critical it is to optimize your book covers to shine in modern sales situations. Your covers must grab attention – in a sea of competitors – even at a small cellphone-browsing size. Otherwise the reader won’t even see the book to learn more about it. Here are two recent examples.
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August 21, 2024
The White Ship by H P Lovecraft Analysis and Review
The White Ship was written by H. P. Lovecraft, and in my order of reading this was his fifth story. It is yet again fairly different from the first four stories, which is intriguing. This one is more of a ‘fairy tale’ / dream sequence. There really isn’t much horror here. Maybe it’s a cautionary
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