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69Should I Self-Publish?
I get emails, based from my blogs. Not the spam kind, but a lot of questions about writing, and publishing. I've written a blog for more than a year now, and people know my email address. So I do get some...
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72First Steps in Children's Story Writing
Every author is different, so every approach will vary. However, this is what works for me. When looking for a book idea, one productive way to start is by checking out what issues are currently out there in...
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78Interview with a Vamp
The face to launch a thousand ships. Q: Why is a blonde's brain the size of a pea in the morning? A: It swells during the night. Everybody knows a blonde joke. Blondes are supposed to be fun-loving...
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83How to self-publish a book
Writing has always been something I have loved to do. It's gives me the chance to do what I want, put the things in my mind on paper, be creative and pretty, and change all the endings to the movies I hate. ...
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77Self-Publishing Benefits Outweigh Traditional Publishing
One of the main reasons so many authors are self-publishing today is twofold. One of the main reasons is because there is a huge market to capitalize on for POD or "Print on Demand" publishers. The other...
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70Self Publishing Pitfalls
For serious writers, the importance of publicity, promotion and marketing should not be underestimated. Turning an MS into a physical book is only a small part of the whole publishing process. If an author is determined to go it alone...
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64A Near-Death Publishing Experience
Several years ago when I was giving substitute teacher training workshops with my friend, Ruth, we wanted to start a newsletter for subs. We found that paper, postage and duplication costs were making it...
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75Self-Publishing 101
Self-Publishing 101 is an introduction to the world of independent publishing. This is a jumping-off point from which to learn more. Can you be a successful self-publisher? Take a look at these questions and...
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70My poetry and how The Bard Word hasn't happened yet
The struggling poet is almost a cliché and my experience as one has illustrated the term well but some months back I thought at last my luck had changed and I was going to have an anthology of all my own...
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82How to Make a Chapbook - An Illustrated, Step-by-Step Guide
A chapbook is a hand-stitched pamphlet. In the colonial United States, street peddlers called chapmen sold chapbooks, which contained religious messages, political opinions, poetry, and popular pieces of...
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