This post is several months old, but it’s well worth re-posting because it’s a brutal, and hilarious, look at the lack of quality in the self-publishing market. Dear Self-Published Word Badgers, I’d like to take a little time out to commend you for your intrepid publishing spirit! And by “commend you,” I mean, “slap you [...]
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I’m rereading George R. R. Martin’s “Game of Thrones” series on my Kindle (actually rereading books 1 and 2, and then reading books 3 and 4), and the experience of getting into his world again is what prompted me to compose this post. I was predisposed against Martin when he was first recommended to me [...]
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Every morning there’s a moment, usually two to three seconds long, where you decide whether or not you’re ready to get up and face the day. Most of us call that moment “The Snooze Button Decision.” It’s that critical time when you either pull yourself out of bed and embark on the journey brought about [...]
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There’s a bit of a heated conversation in the writing world about the benefits and risks of eBooks and/or self-publishing versus traditional publishing methods. I won’t begin to relate all of that argument here, but the gist of it is that many people feel that self-publishing is a rip-off. You pay hundreds of dollars to [...]
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I don’t know about the rest of you but I had an enjoyable Halloween. My parents were in town, they helped me fix up my house a bit, we spent some time with my sister and her family (who live about 90 seconds away from me), we ate a lot, enjoyed some Halloween weekend activities [...]
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This will be the first of many posts we’ll try to put up on this site regarding submission guidelines, rejections, synopsis help and anything else that can help a writer submit his or her work to a publisher/agent and to deal with the results of that submission. The first article I wanted to show you [...]
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