Tag: reader
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Of Jonathon Franzen, Loneliness, and The Still Point of Attention …
It requires skill to craft tantalizing titles, bylines, etc. that coaxes readers, even those who receive your blogs as I do those written by The Mommy Psychologist to actually stop what we are doing and take in the blogger’s words. That what we read leaves us thinking, and pondering the subject of their website and…
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Of Memoir, Climax, and “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”…
Writing teacher and mentor, Clive Matson, always said that if a writer found her or himself wanting and/or needing to explain her or his story that the reader might gain the author’s intended message, the author needed to revise their story further. Completing a manuscript requires more than simply writing the story, editing and revising…
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Protected: Of “Mausam,” Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and Creating for the Ages…
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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 With bookstores and sellers tightly adhering to what seems to me, an outdated mode of purchasing books…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 Apprenticeships, Marketing and Patience…
[Writer’s Digest]–“What’s the most important change happening in the publishing industry right now that’s impacting the future of the author-agent relationship?” [Agent–Paige Wheeler of Folio Literary Management]: “The change in the delivery mechanism is huge. Barriers of entry to publishing are down, and authors are able to make (their work) available to anyone with an…
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Of Agents, Publishing and Writers…
I recently read an article in the October 2010 Issue of Writer’s Digest Magazine. While it bears the title, Evolution of the Literary Agent, one could easily substitute the word Publishing, for Literary Agent and the title would remain consistent with the content, if not more in line with and indicative of the topic(s) discussed…
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Protected: Of Pacing, Tension and the All-Important Artistry of Holding the Reader’s Attention…a
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