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roberta-m-roy's picture
Sep.01.2012
ALVA Green Tomatoes Novelist Runoff Let alvapressinc.com take your ms from ALVA Green Tomato to Great Novel! Must Have: Grabber aspect/dialogue/imagery/grammar/transitions/organization/readability. Is: YA/A Fiction. Word count 40,000-80,000. Entries accepted online in Word Document (.doc) or PDF...
tom-lucas's picture
Jul.13.2012
Continued from Part 4. Towards the end of last year, I finally completed the manuscript for my first novel, Leather to the Corinthians. After the experience of writing it, I know that my second novel will come much easier, as I took a convoluted path and made several bizarre choices in...
tom-lucas's picture
Jun.15.2012
Continued From Part 3... I was super pissed to lose that newspaper job. It had been a part of my daily life for a couple years. I sacrificed a lot of bar stool time for that. I learned much during my time there. If you are a regular blog reader, Wordpress cruiser, or aspiring blogger you no...
john-yunker's picture
Sep.27.2010
To be an indie author is to be (at varying times) an editor, a designer, a production manager, and a publicist. It’s not easy being an expert at so many things. So I devote a fair amount of my time learning from the experts. Fortunately, many of them publish blogs. And by experts I’m not just...
diane-chamberlain's picture
Apr.08.2009
When it comes to writing and getting published, patience is indeed a virtue. I know I may make some people angry by writing about this. If you're one of them (or even if you're not!) feel free to jump in with your own thoughts. I'll listen. But my hope in writing about this topic is not to annoy...