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Jul.26.2011
A quick word out there for all writers with genre stories (especially horror, and specific horror) to sell: Key in words "open submissions" into Google and see what you get. You'll find tons of anthologies looking for stories, which I never in a million years would've guessed. ...
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Jul.20.2011
University of Michigan Press serializing 2 novels for free on Facebook
As it continues moving forward in the world of digital book publishing, the University of Michigan Press has updated an old concept for a new era: the serialized novel.
Starting today, the imprint is offering two...
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Jul.04.2011
How To Find Free & Discounted Kindle eBooks
By Jason Boog
Looking for some cheap beach reading for the holiday weekend? Visit eReaderIQ to sort through discounted and free eBooks at Amazon–the site currently indexes more than 800 free titles in the Kindle Store.
In...
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May.09.2011
Penny Wise Book List
Who doesn't love a great bargain?
After reading a large number of comments on the Kindle and nook discussion boards from readers who (like me!) who want to pick up some quality bargain books, I've created the Penny Wise Book List. Here, you can find a list of links directing...
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May.07.2011
I was reading my local newspaper through its website. I don’t think I’ve actually read the paper in several years. Most of my news comes to me through the Internet, the Daily Show, or the Colbert Report. I found out about Osama bin Laden’s death through the Internet. Facebook seems to have news...
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May.04.2011
Don't we all write for free? From the first simple sentence we stitched together in elementary school to the most complicated novel, it is really, all for free. Or at least it should be... and can't we tell, honestly, when someone is being paid to write. I point you to any manual on how to...
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May.04.2011
If I were able to hop into a time machine, go back to the roaring 80s, and wrestle my coke addled high haired self to the ground to give me some advice about becoming a writer, it would be this: marry well.
I am fortunate in that regard that I married someone whose practical mind and nascent...
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May.04.2011
My first job at age 17 was writing for pay. It was 1965, and I was hired to write a weekly humor column for three newspapers after my work was featured on the New York City radio show of humorist Jean Shepherd.
From the age of 17 until roughly five years ago, I earned my living (in sequence) by my...
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May.04.2011
If all jobs paid $2 an hour, I’d still want to be a writer, because that’s what I do. But the simple fact is that $2-an-hour jobs are for teenagers who live at home and have their bills paid by their parents. Few responsible adults who pay their own bills can get by on $2 an hour, far less nothing...
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May.04.2011
An Ape-ology. And an explanation.
My previous post is an apology. Having spent lots of time promoting the articles that I wrote for Eve Magazine, I suddenly stopped. In fact, the last article that I posted was supposed to be published in Eve Magazine. It wasn’t.
When I...
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