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What Defines ‘Amazon Best Seller?’
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 ...
Writing Poetry: Therapeutic For Folks Fighting Cancer
The Prickly Pear Poetry Project on Publishing
By Tammi J Truax
One of the beautiful things about the work that is generated in Prickly Pear Poetry Workshops, and hopefully after participants attend them, is that it is the rawest of writing. By ...
Networking Writers: It Pays Off
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?
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 ...
AUTHORS Popping Above the Noise
WRITERS-If you plan to go down the independent road to publication that some call self publishing and some call indie publishing OR if you plan to find a small press publisher OR set your sights on traditional publishing, unless you're ...
Good News for Indie Bookstores! Granada Books Becomes….
....1st New Santa Barbara Indie in Decades!
Partners Emmett McDonough and Sharon Hoshida have announced that Granada Books, Santa Barbara’s first new indie to open in 20 years, will have its grand opening this June and is intended to be a ...
Fan-Based Attacks Can Kill Books Like This One
Writes New York Times reviewer, David Streitfeld: Reviews on Amazon are becoming attack weapons, intended to sink new books as soon as they are published.
Randall Sullivan is the author of “Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson. ...
What ‘FREE’ Means In Web World Speak
In the last two years that I've been offering free video quick query letter critiques, writers know that I post them sans all identifying information. Why do I offer this service? I'm good at it and the videos expand my real-time workshop ...
New York Times: First Review of Self-Published Author!
The author's name is Alan Sepinwall. '..... In“The Revolution Was Televised,” Mr. Sepinwall — who writes the blog “What’s Alan Watching?,” best known for its observant episode-by-episode commentary — analyzes a dozen “great millennial dramas” that have forged a new ...
Next Amazon Novel Winners Will be Published by Amazon…Not Penguin
COMING SOON!
If you want to submit your novel to this contest, you need to get it ready for possible publication by Amazon! The inaugurial contest, held in 2012, offered the winner publication through Penguin. Amazon's has changed the rules just ...