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Mar.21.2009
Last month I wrote about how a longtime newspaper gig went the way of many newspapers: poof!
Since then, Seattle's second biggest daily, the Post-Intelligencer, morphed into a web-only publication, trimming the writing staff from 160+ to 20-something folks "doing it all." I was sitting...
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Feb.24.2009
Sadly, my current editor at the Capitol Hill Times in Seattle just lost his job. He now joins an increasingly long line of good journalists in my hometown being shuffled into new professions by the current economic shakeup of the business. Besides a retrenching of the community newspapers, our...
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Dec.29.2008
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....
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Oct.26.2008
West Coast author on an East Coast mornning radio show means the producer called at 6:20 am this morning. But it was fun appearing on "Whatcha Got?" with the knowledgable Mr. Harry Ryker. This syndicated radio show lets people chat about what they have in their houses and the collectible...
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Sep.14.2008
I am convinced that everyone has at least one book in their head. This comes from that usual conversation which begins "what do you do?" Once I answer that I'm a writer and, yes, I have had several books published, than I hear about the questioner's book idea.
This conversation used to...
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Jul.26.2008
My latest nonfiction title just arrived from UPS. It's 8.5" by 11" hardcover that weighs 3 lbs according to the publisher's website. All I know is that it is my first book that's actually slightly bigger than my computer (I work on a laptop!).
The Encyclopedia of Collectible Children's...
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Jul.12.2008
The most common question that other writers ask me is "Do you have an agent?" And most are surprised when I say no. I've sold seven books to publishers throughout the U.S., including one novel to Wizards of the Coast, without an agent.
I love the idea of having an agent: somebody to...
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Jun.01.2008
When I started out in the book business, publishing meant a serious investment of money as well as time. A small press run was several thousand dollars -- simply printing a book or two wasn't feasible without enormous cost (set-up for 1 book or for 1,000 books on a large press takes the same...
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Apr.07.2008
As often stated in various published bios, my first post-college writing job was working for a Chinese newspaper. Now, if you're looking at my photo, you may be thinking "She doesn't look Chinese." (You're right!)
However, the very understanding editor of the Seattle Chinese Post...
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Mar.21.2008
The folks at Red Room sent me a note to remind me that I could blog here. So, not wanting to repeat what is on my other blogs, I thought I'd concentrate here on how I became a published writer. In short, the secret handshake that everyone always knows that writers and publishers have but won't...
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About Rosemary
A member of the Science Fiction Writers of America, I forged my fictional writing career out of the fire of dragons and the steel of dungeons. Since then, I've added rocket ships, robot dogs, superhero hackers, and more to the stone soup of the stories....
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