"Hi Rebecca,
I don't know much about Macs, just that my techniques will work with any Word program. I'll be happy to send you a PDF of my guide for free so you can see if it will work for you. Just message me your email and I'll send…"
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Pamela Olson commented on the blog post 'When you cut a scene, you like, save it!'
"Amen! I had to cut my memoir down from about 1,000 pages to 350 before I self-published. That was agonizing -- so many great characters and fascinating events and hilarious moments clipped onto the cutting room floor. But I know the book is better…"
Pamela Olson commented on the blog post 'Writing About Real People: The Ethics of The Good, The Bad & The Ugly'
"Thanks for this, an excellent post. I know I tend to try to find and write about the best in people -- even those who are your enemies. It's not just because it feels queasy to write bad things about people (a "gut instinct" that…"
Pamela Olson commented on the blog post 'What We Talk About When Talk About Book Titles'
"I had a title long before I had a book, or even a proposal -- Fast Times in Palestine. I like the way it resonates, the way it's an unexpected combination of a war zone and whimsical American pop culture, and the way that after you read the…"
Pamela Olson replied to the discussion 'Converting Novel to eBook' in the group EPublishing
"Hi Elayne,
I'm available to do this for $20 an hour, and it rarely takes me more than three hours. My email is pamolson (a) gmail.com. You can view previews of the books I've done for myself at…"
Pamela Olson commented on the blog post 'Breaking Up With Traditional Publishing: It’s Not Me, It’s You (Part 2)'
"By the way, for those who aren't sure how to format eBooks, I put together a slim yet robust guide in response to all the frustration I faced when I tried to format eBooks the first time. It literally tooks weeks for me to sort everything out,…"
Pamela Olson commented on the blog post 'Breaking Up With Traditional Publishing: It’s Not Me, It’s You (Part 2)'
"I had the same reaction, and went ahead and self-published my first book. Here's the article I wrote about it, "Why I Turned Down Two Publishing Contracts":…"
Pamela Olson commented on the blog post 'On Adrienne Rich, Letting Go of Genre, & Celebrating the April 3 Paperback Release of DON'T KILL THE BIRTHDAY GIRL (Book Giveaway!)'
"I like the idea of letting go of genre -- partly because my book (Fast Times in Palestine) doesn't fit neatly into any one genre, and this was a big hurdle to getting published for a long time. (I just got a publisher last week, after four…"
Pamela Olson posted a blog post
"Simple eBook Formatting for the Technophobic Author" is FREE today!
Get it here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007JNRTVEIt's a lean, simple guide to formatting, publishing, and managing beautiful eBooks, and the only prior knowledge required is a working knowledge of Microsoft Word and web browsing. And it's FREE today!Please partake and enjoy...See More
Pamela Olson replied to the discussion 'What did you blog about Today?' in the group Blogging about Books and Writing!
"I blogged about my latest eBook, Simple eBook Formatting for the Technophobic Author -- and how it's FREE today! http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007JNRTVE
Here's the blog post, which has a longer description of the book:…"
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For blogging readers, writers, collectors, reviewers. Please no all-caps posts or jumbo book jackets/other imagines anywhere in the group, please. We're trying to avoid self-promo hell. Thanks!See More
Pamela Olson posted a status
"I wrote a Simple eBook Formatting Guide for Technophobic Authors -- and it's FREE today! Check it out: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007JNRTVE"
Pamela Olson commented on the blog post 'Talking for Writers'
"Very helpful, thanks! I've been getting advice lately to go the more serious route, because the Middle East is supposed to be serious, and people need to take me seriously. There is a lot of serious stuff in the book, of course, but the whole…"
Pamela Olson commented on the blog post 'Talking for Writers'
"By the way, if you want to see the fuller synopsis (so you can know what the other stuff is trying to describe), it's on the front page of my website: http://pamolson.org
Thanks for helping us out with this!"
Pamela Olson commented on the blog post 'Talking for Writers'
"Logline: Fast Times in Palestine is a memoir of a young woman from Oklahoma who finds herself unexpectly caught up in the beauty and terror of the Holy Land and its decades-long conflict.
Pitch: This book illuminates crucial, little-understood…"
Pamela Olson added a discussion to the group EPublishing
Fast Times in Palestine -- FREE March 3-4
Hey all,I'm doing a Kindle giveaway this weekend for my coming-of-age travel adventure memoir, Fast Times in Palestine. It's the true story of my experience stumbling into the middle of the Israel/Palestine conflict as a young recent college grad, and soon finding my life and my beliefs turned upside down. Full of humor, romance, tension, and tragedy, the book also packs a punch with information about the conflict and the culture seamlessly woven through the narrative. Here's the link -- you…See More
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- Who I am:
- I'm from small-town Oklahoma, studied at Stanford, spent a semester in Russia, worked a summer in China, and began to realize travel, writing, and politics were my passion. I recently published my first book, Fast Times in Palestine, a work of travel adventure memoir journalism about my years as a young journalist in the Middle East. Read more about it here: http://pamolson.org. I blog at http://fasttimesinpalestine.wordpress.com
- Connect with me online! My site, blog, or Twitter handle are:
- http://pamolson.org
http://fasttimesinpalestine.wordpress.com
Facebook: pamolson4
Twitter: PamelaJOlson
- Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:
- Book I've written: Fast Times in Palestine, Simple eBook Formatting for the Technophobic Author
Book I've contributed to: Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- Media outlets that I currently write for:
- Mondoweiss.net
- My writing is:
- Nonfiction, Memoir, Journalism, Blog Posts
- Services I offer to other writers:
- Freelance editing, ghostwriting
- I'm part of these writers' groups or salons:
- Not yet, but I'd like to find one
- I found out about She Writes from:
- Nancy Kricorian
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- At 5:26pm on July 24, 2011,
Jill Starishevsky said…
Hi Pamela,
Welcome to SheWrites. Feel free to reach out if you need anything.
Jill Starishevsky
Author, My Body Belongs to Me
http://www.MyBodyBelongstoMe.com
Join our blog tour in August!
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"Simple eBook Formatting for the Technophobic Author" is FREE today!
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 11:03am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Get it here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007JNRTVE
It's a lean, simple guide to formatting, publishing, and managing beautiful eBooks, and the only prior knowledge required is a working knowledge of Microsoft Word and web browsing. And it's FREE today!
Please partake and enjoy...
Happy Birthday to YOU
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 10:39am 0 Comments 0 Likes
I just took the plunge and signed all six of my eBooks up for KDP Select. It's my birthday this weekend, and I made all six of them free for parts or all of this weekend as a little birthday present to the world. Please feel free to partake in the freebook feast :)
www.amazon.com/Pamela-Olson/e/B0051C0ZGG
Here are the titles, for reference:
Continue Fast Times in Publishing
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:30pm 1 Comment 0 Likes
In January 2008, I sat down to begin the book that would define my young adulthood, a memoir about a two-year period in the Middle East that challenged everything I thought I knew about politics, war, and human nature.
The problem is, average Americans don’t read much serious journalism about the Middle East. Who can blame them? It's mostly depressing, polemical, hard to relate to, and full of…
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