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nina-amir's picture
May.07.2011
Today I received a comment on my last Redroom blog post about writing for free. A reader said she thought we should worry less about getting paid...
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Jun.05.2011
I got motivated to turn out some products--books--the other day. I'm off to a convention at the end of the month where I am teaching two workshops...
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Jun.05.2011
I spent all of Memorial Day outside pulling weeds. I have a large property up in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California. Between work and...
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Aug.04.2011
Today’s post truly comes from my own experience. I’m here to tell you that hard work pays off. I landed a traditional publishing deal! Whoo hoo!...
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Sep.27.2011
I just came back from giving a talk at a local writer’s club. There I heard the same question I hear everywhere I go: What’s the best way for...
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Sep.29.2011
  I often speak with my clients and to audiences about successful books. I have to remember that each author has a different picture of...
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Oct.25.2011
Many of you who have been following this blog for the last few years or more know that I am the founder of Write Nonfiction in November, a challenge...
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Oct.28.2011
I coach a lot of writers and authors who want to (1) begin blogging, (2) develop more effective blogs or (3) blog a book so they get discovered by...
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Oct.28.2011
Professionals within the publishing industry have provided no new figures on blog-to-book deals since about 2009. In that 12 months alone, between 50...
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nina-amir's picture
Oct.30.2011
Today is October 31st. Yes, it’s Halloween, but that’s not all. To me, and to thousands of nonfiction writers, the last day of October has importance...
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sheila-english's picture
Sep.29.2011
For fans of sexy vampire fiction and paranormal romance, Sexiest Vampire Alive is a must-read... Gregori Holstein is no typical vampire. After all...
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Sep.26.2010
The following is excerpted from bookhitch.com on the rising use of e-text books. This issue should prove interesting as it evolves.    e-...
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Dec.23.2010
Deck us all with Boston Charlie,Walla Walla, Wash., an' Kalamazoo!Nora's freezin' on the trolley,Swaller dollar cauliflower alley-garoo! Don't we...
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Mar.24.2011
Note: I first feel obliged to give my sketchy view on the metamorphosis of popular media. To skip to my bottom line, scroll down to the picture of...
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rachel-bussel's picture
Oct.08.2009
Window display at Toronto's Come As You Are sex toy store, where I'm teaching How to Write Erotica on October 26th, 7:30 pm. With Rachel Kramer...
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stephen-pain's picture
Oct.10.2010
I could  NOT resist getting the collected Blok after all. It is hefty Soviet edition - nothing like those slim volumes published in his lifetime....
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stephen-pain's picture
Oct.12.2010
I do not know if any of you are keen on art, but I ventured to describe in a short piece, the life and art of the symbolist artist Mikhail Vrubel -...
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eryn-potter's picture
Aug.13.2009
Ok so there are lots of things can say about heroes...rant about superman, Spiderman...all those guys but I'm going to talk about my hero. Her name...
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mary-deal's picture
Feb.18.2010
To hear my live (archived) interview on BlogTalkRadio, go here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/extraordinarywomen/2010/02/18/novelist-mary...
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Aug.22.2011
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