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Jun.28.2011
Pan Macmillan to Launch Digital-Only Imprint, Macmillan Compass
U.K. publishing house Pan Macmillan announced plans to launch Macmillan Compass, a new digital only publishing imprint. While the new imprint will release e-books for all formats and distribution will be through Pan Macmillan’s...
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May.28.2011
Amazon's publishing push is raising eyebrows
by Keith J. Kelly
Onetime publishing execu tive turned literary agent Larry Kirshbaum's jump to Amazon to head up a new publishing operation has rival publishers nervous.
The move comes at a time of tremendous upheaval in the business....
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May.23.2011
Photo by Jeffrey Abrahams
How Can I Find An Agent?
By Eric Olsen
I know there are some good agents out there. Some of the writers in We Wanted to Be Writers have good agents, agents who sell their work and aggressively look after their interests and hold their hands when hands need...
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May.09.2011
Montlake Romance Marks Tip of Amazon's Expansion Into Publishing By Rachel Deahl
With the news that Amazon is expanding its publishing arm, launching in the fall Montlake Romance (with plans to deepen its category publishing to mystery, science fiction, and thrillers), many in the publishing...
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May.04.2011
In today's competitive world of publishing, I sometimes find the wait from completing a novel to being accepted by an agent or publisher more trying than writing a four-hundred page novel. As a writer, the story seems to runs straight from my mind to my fingers on a keyboard, sometimes faster than...
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May.04.2011
Benjamin D'Israeli said, “When I want to read a good book, I write one.” But even D'Israeli, I am sure, also read books written by others—and enjoyed them.
As an author, I am often asked for books I’ve read and enjoyed. I am also asked to read works-in-progress. Unfortunately, I do more of the...
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May.03.2011
St. Martin's Prepares for Run on Book by Seals 'Seal Team Six' chronicles elite warrior's story
Three weeks shy of a year ago, St. Martin's Press signed up a book by a Navy SEAL Team Six sniper, chronicling how he became an elite warrior and the battle that nearly cost him his life. Today, with...
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Apr.30.2011
One of the prisoner cells in Alcatraz Island Prison in San Francisco, CA. F+W Buys Tyrus Books, Launches Crime Vertical by Jim Milliot F+W Media is adding to its family of vertical segments and in the process getting in the fiction market with the launch of F+W Crime. To launch its newest...
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Apr.22.2011
1. * Read the top ten books related to your book topic.
2. Ask: how can I make my book better and/or unique enough for readers to want to buy?
3. In your research, take lots of notes. (These notes will feed your imagination and also provide you with writing material to draw from).
4. Set a goal of...
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Apr.18.2011
I have a new interview over at a blog called Kindle Author. Very nice man named David Wisehart, also a writer, runs the blog and posts interviews. Check it out... and if you have published on Amazon for the Kindle, drop him a line.
http://kindle-author.blogspot.com/2011/04/kindle-author-interview-...
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