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User-friendly technical book on how to use a personal database system that's no longer being sold.
The good part is that I got a $10,000 advance before writing a single word. Makes me feel like the BIG names to have been invited by a publisher to write a book.
Reason: I was the supervisor of Microrim's technical writing department. I won seven Society of Technical Communication awards for excellence in technical documentation. I was a technical writer from 1971 to 2005. Yeah, that's a lot of years. I pioneered in the personal computer industry in 1977. I have in my possession a manual for using a word processing system before there was such a thing as a PC. Before Apple! Before IBM decided to produce a PC.
What it shows is that I can write. I've written several thousand PAGES of documentation. I've made hundreds of thousands of dollars for my writing. How many writers can say that?
I call myself a success no matter what happens in my new job writing fiction.
The good part is that I got a $10,000 advance before writing a single word. Makes me feel like the BIG names to have been invited by a publisher to write a book.
Reason: I was the supervisor of Microrim's technical writing department. I won seven Society of Technical Communication awards for excellence in technical documentation. I was a technical writer from 1971 to 2005. Yeah, that's a lot of years. I pioneered in the personal computer industry in 1977. I have in my possession a manual for using a word processing system before there was such a thing as a PC. Before Apple! Before IBM decided to produce a PC.
What it shows is that I can write. I've written several thousand PAGES of documentation. I've made hundreds of thousands of dollars for my writing. How many writers can say that?
I call myself a success no matter what happens in my new job writing fiction.
450 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1991
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Marva Dasef
28 books72 followersLots of interesting and economical books in scifi, fantasy, etc. for sale. Hell, I give 'em away. Just ask."
I have seven books in audio format.
I spent 35 years making a lot of money from writing. Probably more than most authors earn in their lifetime. But that was writing technical manuals and documentation. What that experience did was teach me how to write. This is not something many other writers learn to do until they decide to write their first fiction book.
I'm a professional writer. What this means for the reader is they won't get clumsy, ungrammatical, misspelled prose which appears to be the norm of most newbie fiction writers.
There. I've said it. I'm a better writer than most. Whether you like my stories is an entirely different thing. At least with my books, you won't have to suffer through poor writing to find out whether you like the book or not. If you like erotica, then I'm not the writer for you.
I have seven books in audio format.
I spent 35 years making a lot of money from writing. Probably more than most authors earn in their lifetime. But that was writing technical manuals and documentation. What that experience did was teach me how to write. This is not something many other writers learn to do until they decide to write their first fiction book.
I'm a professional writer. What this means for the reader is they won't get clumsy, ungrammatical, misspelled prose which appears to be the norm of most newbie fiction writers.
There. I've said it. I'm a better writer than most. Whether you like my stories is an entirely different thing. At least with my books, you won't have to suffer through poor writing to find out whether you like the book or not. If you like erotica, then I'm not the writer for you.
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July 27, 2021
Out of print, but when it was COMMISSIONED by Que Press, it earned this author more than from any other book.
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