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AUTHORS & BOOK PROMOTION 21st Century Style Interview w/ Jennifer S Redmond-MEMOIR

marla miller 26 October 2023 21st Century Publishing, Author Interviews, Cool Author Videos, Featured No Comment

AUTHORS & BOOK PROMOTION 21st Century Style Interview w/ Jennifer S Redmond-MEMOIR Jennifer Silva Redmond, author of Honeymoon at Sea, her memoir chronicling her love affair with her husband Russell over a 30 year span of their life at sea. Yep! ...

Barnaby Conrad Keynotes at SBCC Writers Workshop

marla miller 04 January 2022 Cool Author Videos, Literature Leaders No Comment

Barnaby Conrad Keynotes at SBCC Writers Workshop Next week, I'll be teaching at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference where Barnaby Conrad could always be found mentoring writers. He loved it and it showed. Enjoy this clip from the 2010 Santa Barbara City ...

Road To ‘Forty Years Stoned: a journalist’s romance’ Publication

marla miller 27 January 2017 Links: Writing, Cannabis Education, Marketing the Muse No Comment

Road To 'Forty Years Stoned: a journalist's romance' Publication Forty Years Stoned: a journalist's romance This blog will grow as Tom Huth's platform does. With time and entries, I hope it will offer a roadmap for writers unable to envision their own ...

Gayle Carline: I’ve Written “The End.” Can I Self-Publish Now?

marla miller 03 October 2013 Featured, Marketing the Muse 4 Comments

Great overview! Thanks Gayle for sharing with MarketingtheMuse I’ve Written “The End.” Can I Self-Publish Now? Gayle Carline, Mystery Author and Humor Columnist Alternate Publishing/SCWC Workshop 9/22/2013 “The End.” Can I Self-Publish Now? The short answer is No. “A book is published too soon for the publisher and ...

PREMATURE PUBLICATION

marla miller 30 July 2013 Marketing the Muse, Marla's Musings 8 Comments

PREMATURE PUBLICATION The good news is, writers are no longer at traditional publishing's beck and call. We have options. Back in the day, we had none. Our only hope? Getting a nod from one of the publishing houses. The first winds of ...

L Williams Gibbon: 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Competition

marla miller 23 March 2013 21st Century Publishing, Featured, Links: Writing, Cannabis Education, Marketing the Muse No Comment

2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition by L. William Gibbons A couple days ago, 3/13/13, I learned that my novel, The Fourth Marker, made it to the quarterfinals in the 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition, one of 500 titles out ...

What Defines ‘Amazon Best Seller?’

marla miller 23 March 2013 21st Century Publishing No Comment

How Many Sales to Amazon Bestseller? by Jason Matthews, 3/20/13 Want to be an Amazon bestseller? Of course you do–every author does! Want to be an Amazon bestseller? Of course you do–every author does! And we’re talking about the top five of all ...

Networking Writers: It Pays Off

marla miller 23 February 2013 Marketing the Muse No Comment

Once again, the 2013 Southern California Writers Conference was a weekend to remember. Per my usual, I encouraged writers to collect emails and business cards-not just from 'the experts'-but from each other. You never know who you're going to meet, ...

How Important Is the Query Letter?

marla miller 14 February 2013 21st Century Publishing, Cool Author Videos, Marketing the Muse, Quick Query Critiques No Comment

Bill Gibbons is the second subscriber/writer who made it past round one of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Writing contest. Like Dale Myers whose novel made it through round one in the 2012 contest, Bill credits the quick query critique he ...

Amazon: E-book Sales Soared, Print Crawled

marla miller 30 January 2013 21st Century Publishing, Links: Writing, Cannabis Education, Marketing the Muse No Comment

'...In a statement accompanying its fourth quarter and full year results for 2012, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos neatly summed up where he sees the future of book retailing heading--especially for his company. “We’re now seeing the transition we’ve been expecting,” ...

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