Tag: readers
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The Writer/Mother
“I’m a better writer and certainly a better person because I am a mother,” says author, Lisa Unger. “My best times for writing and creativity are between 5 am to noon. Afternoons are devoted to my daughter when she returns home from school.” The role of mother and writer is a taxing one for those…
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Audiobooks–Converting the Spoken Word into Dollars
Tennessee Woman Spends $50,000 on Audiobooks When I first saw this article by Tom Alderman at the Huffington Post I thought, Wow. On second thought I recalled all the audiobooks I’ve ordered for my middle child, who despite being dyslexic, is an avid reader. I didn’t spend close to the amount that Marion Bryant spent…
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BEA: What the Numbers Say
The juggernaut of Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” series could not overcome the overpowering effects of a global recession last year as publishers sold fewer books in 2008 than the year before, according to the Book Industry Study group, a trade association. –Motoko Rich, Falling Sales Cast Gloom at an Expo Rich then presents the numbers, “Publishers…
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A Thick State of Denial
While training to become a psychotherapist I was taught that the thicker a client’s state of denial, the deeper the wound that lay beneath it. As I look at the ways various sectors of the economy are continuing to spend money like there’s no tomorrow, never mind the economic depression that lay upon us today,…