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Apr.24.2012 Popularity in Publishing: You Thought You Had it Bad in High School? Suddenly, publishing seems like one big popularity contest. Who was it who said that everything I learned, I learned in high school? The business of the arts suggests it’s true. When I worked briefly as a music manager, there was one thing that really got me: in a business that was...	Nov.24.2011 Easy Ways to Get Your Nonfiction Book Noticed on Amazon Most of us have gone to Amazon.com to search for a book. Maybe we’ve done this because we simply wanted to purchase a book, or maybe we were researching competing and complementary titles for a book proposal. In either case, if you spend any time at all in this online book store it becomes...
Jul.27.2011 List Of Most Popular Travel Magazines Travel Magazine © Wally G. The Most Popular Travel Magazinesby Gennaro Salamone Travel Magazines With the Highest Circulation (United States) 1. National Geographic 4,493,0242. Via Magazine (AAA) 2,740,4353. AAA Living 2,469,8304. AAA Going Places 2,404,1215. Sunset 1,259,7506. Where...	May.31.2011 People Fawn Over Marble Event They Thought Would Never Work. Nashville, Tennessee An abundance of congratulations and well done's have flooded the inbox of Mavis Willoughby upon the news that her First Annual Glass Marbles Cocktail Event was a major success, from people who thought not more than two days ago that this was the stupidest shit on the face of...
Sep.05.2009 Whatever Happened to All the Chads? Back to school time has come again to our big cities, quaint little towns and cozy rural areas all over the nation. By the Tuesday after Labor Day our neighborhoods become a little less chaotic; the mall is dead from Monday to Friday, many movie theaters stop their matinee showings and the...	Jul.18.2009 I Want to Be Tuna Once a while ago, a friend of mine did my Tarot reading based on my birth date. I'm not a big believer in readings, though I love any event that is all about me. So she figured something out with my dates and numbers, and showed me my card, or cards rather. I am the double Hermit. The Hermit is...
Mar.21.2009 Twitter makes me want to hide. At first, I loved Twitter's simplicity. No MySpace or Facebook gadgets like growing gardens, photo albums, snowball fights, groups, or event invites. You just go there, type a sentence up to 140 characters, and that's it. I also enjoyed (and still do) the surreal opportunity to follow people like...	Dec.29.2008 Encyclopedia is #5 in Ephemera Today I did what authors shouldn't do. I checked my ranking on Amazon.com. As usual, the overall ranking was humbling. There is literally hundreds of thousands of books more popular than mine. But I find that in the sublists, I've actually cracked the top 10 in one category: Paper Ephemera....
Aug.25.2008 Home! and Red Diaper Dharma on Winning When Annie was a little girl, everytime we'd pull the car up in front of the house, Bill would announce, "Home again, home again, jiggity-jig." He doesn't say that any more -- that "little girl" is turning 16 next month -- but the phrase still runs through my mind whenever we...	Jun.09.2008 Giving it another 25 years... This year I won't have two books on the bestseller list--hardcover and paperback--nor will I earn rave reviews from Kirkus, the New York Times and the Manchester Guardian. My earnings from writing will amount to next to nothing. So what keeps me going? If after nearly 25 years I'm not even close...