Tag: authors
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Of Time, Authors and the Common Ground of Promotion…
During a recent discussion, Attention Self-Publishers, at Definitive Serious Writers at LinkedIn, an author lamented the difficult task of finding the time to both write and market their work. Promoting and marketing one’s work as a writer or novelist, how best and most effectively to do this, and remained focused upon the writing of your…
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Of Supply, Demand, and The Woeful Truth About Publishing and Authors…
Author and publisher, Zetta Brown’s recent blog, “Authors! Can’t find your book in a bookstore? You may be luckier than you think!”, got me to thinking–no pun intended–about the old law of economics, that of supply and demand. With bookstores and sellers tightly adhering to what seems to me, an outdated mode of purchasing books…
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Of E-books, Royalties and Taking Charge of Finances…
Unless a publisher can provide strong marketing and distribution, I cannot see where they have earned 75% of royalties from electronic book sales. In the past, when books only came in hard/paperback, publishers could justify their actions in that they paid the bill on having copies of our books printed up. Now with Amazon stating…
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Protected: Radio Show | Tyora Moody, and Her Many Facets…
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Of Shrinking Advances, Entertainment, and That Which Remains Present in Translation…
One of the things we learn as psychotherapists is to interpret what clients are actually saying vs. the words they speak. This is not to say that clients lie. I have found those with whom I have worked to be incredibly honest. They were investing a substantial amount of time and money into their sessions…
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Radio Show | Authors, Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant
Authors, Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant, discuss their new novel, “Uptown”. Ms. Deberry and Grant have also written, “What Doesn’t Kill You”, “Gotta Keep on Tryin'”, “Exposures”, “Better Than I Know Myself”, “Trying to Sleep in the Bed You Made”, “Far From the Tree”. So tune in.
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Perfectionism, Fears and Good Husbands…
Readying your book for publication, i.e. the printing and binding of the words you have penned is an illuminating process. First of all, if you’re like me, a perfectionist, nothing you read of the novel or story seems right. All the sentences you spent hours upon hours crafting, shaping, editing, refining and then re-writing sound…
