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Jan.28.2013
Bernard Starr Psychologist/journalist/college professor
Self-publishing continues its exponential growth. More and more authors are choosing this route for presenting their work to the public, encouraged by impressive success stories, including accounts by bestselling writers who...
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Jan.21.2013
They used to call it the "vanity press," and the phrase itself spoke volumes. Self-published authors were considered not good enough to get a real publishing contract. They had to pay to see their book in print. But with the advent of e-books, self-publishing has exploded, and a handful of...
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Jan.14.2013
Nick Morgan, Contributor
Here’s the problem with self-publishing: no one cares about your book. That’s it in a nutshell. There are somewhere between 600,000 and 1,000,000 books published every year in the US alone, depending on which stats you believe. Many of those – perhaps as many as half or...
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Jan.06.2013
by John Robert Marlow
Novelist, Screenwriter
Whether gathered around a campfire, painting on cave walls, writing words on dead trees or computer screens--it's in our blood. Books and other storytelling formats can be noble undertakings, capable of reaching hundreds of thousands, sometimes...
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Dec.30.2012
By Writer's Relief staff:
Writers are faced with the task of completing pieces of poetry and prose with not much to guide them but raw talent and an accurate inner compass for what is “finished” and what still needs work. So when that inner compass starts to waver, many writers doubt their...
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Dec.24.2012
Stephanie Sun Writer, Publisher First published on Indiereader.com
Kirkus Reviews is an advance book reviews publication with a pay-to-play program for self-published books called Kirkus Indie. Although Kirkus Indie does not guarantee a positive review of one's book, it does give authors...
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Dec.17.2012
Posted: 12/14/2012 8:09 am EST | Updated: 12/14/2012 8:22 am EST
It's been quite a year for publishing. The Random Penguin. Fifty Shades of Everything. No Pulitzer for Fiction winner. The DOJ settlement.
Yet 2013 could yet be even more dramatic. There are plenty of...
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Dec.10.2012
by Anne M. Marble
"What happened to the word 'said'?" the editor shrieked as she read the manuscripts in the slush pile.
Today, a lot of authors think that the word "said" is boring. So they decide to substitute it with lots of different and exciting verbs. For example, right in the...
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Dec.03.2012
by Sam McNerney on July 10, 2012.
“How do Americans spend their leisure time?” That question was posed by Yale psychologist Paul Bloom in his 2010 book How Pleasure Works. The answer, Bloom says, is “participating in experiences that we know are not real. When we are free to do whatever we want...
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Nov.26.2012
Warren Adler Author
Stick out your tongue and you will get some idea of what has been happening in the book business. Ten thousand taste buds combined with various chemical reactions elsewhere in the body send taste signals to your brain.
With the tsunami of e-books where...
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