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Oct.31.2010 - 12:31 pm
Does self-publishing mean you’ll never have a chance at winning a book award? It certainly seems that way. The PEN New England Hemingway Foundation Award for First Fiction notes...
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Sep.27.2010 - 8:12 pm
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...
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Sep.26.2010 - 3:50 pm
Penguins swimming off the coast of Punta Tombo   It is all too easy to assume that penguins are clumsy animals. After all, we typically encounter them on land, where they...
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Sep.24.2010 - 11:17 am
In the past few weeks I've received a number of questions about the cover of The Tourist Trail. Did you take this photo? Are these really penguins? And what kind of penguins are...
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