I was walking with my kids on the beach when my father-in-law leaned over the balcony to shout, “Your agent's on the phone! He has a book
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In his iconic memoir on writing, Stephen King says, “Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's
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Every month, I join Nevertheless Writers, a cross-genre group of five writers, to discuss writing and publishing at local libraries and
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Most of us are cynical enough by now to see that life is all about branding, whether we're being bombarded by ads for colleges, books, cars, shampoos,
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Self-publishing is about as democratic as anything else, in the sense that 1) anyone is free to try it and 2) it takes money to make
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My friend Melanie finally lured me into joining Twitter Nation by bribing me with scones and tea. “It's really easy, and it's great once you
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Now that I've got feet in both camps, I have a unique perspective on the good, the bad and the mysterious truths about book marketing. My memoir, The
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Recently, I was nosing around a local bookstore in search of a perfect Christmas read for my father-in-law. He's a history buff; last year I gave him
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My husband gave me a Kindle for my birthday. (Forgive him, O Indie booksellers. He is an engineer who knows not what he does.) At first I
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