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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, ...
The NEW Adult Fiction Genre Popping Up!
Last week, I posted this blog in Authors Popping Above the Noise about Genese Davis.
This week, Huff Post Books blogger, Jocelyn Kelley, posted this column about the 'new adult fiction genre' which defines exactly the dilemma Genese found herself in ...
The Future of Publishing Platforms Is Here
Johnson’s futurism was followed by two presentations about current technology now changing the market: Matt MacInnis, detailed the public launch of Inkling Habitat, a free multimedia authoring platform that allows publishers to create multimedia-enriched digital content and distribute it through ...
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 ...
QUICK QUERY CRITIQUE #132: The Light of Love/nonfiction/new age
QQC # 132:
THE LETTER
Dear -
Have you ever searched to redefine and reclaim your inner mastery of soul; or made a conscious decision to walk in the Divinity and Power of Love? “The Light of Love,” is a non-fiction New Age ...
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 ...
Why Indie Author Did NOT Sell His e-Book Rights to Simon & Schuster
Click here to read this inspiring story of an author who initially said 'No Thank-You' to Simon & Schuster's offer to publish his ebook.
'.....At some point, he said, when you’re making enough money, you want to please your customers.'
Amazon: E-book Sales Soared, Print Crawled
'...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,” ...
TWITTER HASH TAGS for WRITERS
If you tweet, you know that the Twitter universe is vast. How do you reach other writers? Hashtags help. What are they? Words that reflect your subject matter that are tagged like #this.
Here's Twitter's definition: The # symbol, called a hashtag, ...
Publishing World Acclimating to the Digital Revolution
Like the record industry before it, the publishing industry is changing dramatically. Of the Big Seven publishers (Random House, HarperCollins, MacMillan, Penguin, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group (Little, Brown & Co, et al), and Scholastic), six of them–all but ...