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January 28, 2016

The 2016 Publishing Shift

2016 Book Publishing Updates. Writers, you may want to write this down! The Write Nook In any industry, there is such a vast amount of knowledge that you should know in order to be successful in it. Knowing what’s ‘in’, what’s ‘out’, what’s ‘hot’, and what’s ‘not’ is essential. Publishing is one of those industries,… Continue reading

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January 28, 2016

Marketing is Farming, Not Hunting

Originally posted on Chris Fox Writes: Writing a novel is an immense undertaking, and before you finish it you think it’s the most daunting thing you’ll ever do. Then you DO finish it, and suddenly you need to figure out how to get people to read it. Before long you realize you need to learn… Continue reading

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January 27, 2016

Knowing Where To End Your Story

Originally posted on YOURS IN STORYTELLING…: ? The other day someone asked on kboards just what they ought to do if they knew where they wanted to END their story, but not where they wanted to START it from. This is basically how I answered that question. For me, a story is a little like… Continue reading

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January 27, 2016

Wise Ink: ERROR: Kindle’s Latest Warning Message

Wow, check out this post from Wise Ink about Amazon’s coming Error Message. This is exactly why I prefer to always have a paperback copy of my books available. Electronics are not dependable and in the case that a great book is flagged because of minor errors or formatting issues, leaves the reader to do… Continue reading

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January 25, 2016

Stop Wasting Time

You get up. Go to work. Complain at work. Blog at work and complain about blogging. Count the seconds until the day is over. The day is over. Go home. Make dinner. Kiss the wife / husband. Kiss the children. Complain about work tomorrow. Eat dinner. Go to bed. Get up. Go to work. Complain… Continue reading

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#MondayBlogs, appreciation, birth, death, google, life, Mondays, pbs, time, treasure, value, wasting, wasting time, wordpress

January 24, 2016

Choices

I woke up this morning to this scene in The Matrix Reloaded. I’ll just leave it here: Oracle: We can never see passed the choices we don’t understand. Neo: You mean I have to choose whether Trinity lives or dies? Oracle: No, you already made the choice. Now you have to understand it. – The… Continue reading

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January 23, 2016

The Oscars: Our Fight

OK, so what’s my thoughts on this? Well, there’s the good, the bad, the ugly and everything in-between. There’s the surface and then there’s what is beneath the surface but I’m not going to get into all of that. There’s some dark clouds in Hollywood but there’s some sunshine too. As far as the Oscar… Continue reading

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