Around eleven-thirty last evening I received a text from our youngest daughter stating that she and her schoolmates had arrived safely in Japan.
“We’re here and everything is good,” she had written. “I love you,” along with her code for letting me know she sent the text.
I wrote back,
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The reality of publishing is that it is difficult to make a profit in this business.
And why does one want to make a profit?
Because editors need to be paid, it takes money to print copies of a book, and most importantly, authors need food, shelter, and health insurance, none of which are cheap, if we are to write entertaining stories.
When publishing companies agree to print book, the writer must deliver and on time, lest the publisher demands
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So you want to write the next Great American Novel. You sit in front of your computer, hands ready to type, ideas filling your mind to the brim, and you begin to write. What happens next is the difference between a writer and everyone else. (my response to Andrew Sprong’s Blog, Writing is Labor of
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