Sue Ann Bowling

Sue Ann Bowling commented on Brooke Warner's article Is Amazon Good or Bad for Authors? 10 Ratings from the Publisher of She Writes Press

September 2013

Amazon does NOT always follow the lowest price. I managed to get iUniverse (the publisher) to drop the price of Tourist Trap to $4.99 early in 2013 because I feel this is reasonable for an unknown fiction writer--which I feel should be less than a...

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Sue Ann Bowling commented on Cait Levin's article [What's Next?] Put it in Print

March 2013

My dissertation was written on yellow lined paper, corrected, cut up, taped together and how the typist read it (even though my handwriting was much better in those days) I'll never know. (For time reference, it was typed on mimeograph stencils.)...

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Sue Ann Bowling commented on Nancy K. Miller's article Countdown to Publication: Rip Van Winkle Steps Out With Her Sandwich Board

August 2011

As someone who's just self-published two science fiction novels (and I'm 70 now) I too was dismayed by the new task of book marketing. Especially as I've been a scientist (and occasional science popularizer) for most of my life.

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Sue Ann Bowling commented on Tiffany Jansen's article "Write What You Know" Is Actually Brilliant Advice

July 2011

But which thing that you know? I spent most of my life as a physicist and atmospheric scientist, and since I've retired write science fiction. My blog is a rather mixed bag of weather in Alaska Mondays, reviews Tuesday, explanations for my daily...

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Sue Ann Bowling commented on Niranjana Iyer's article Women Doing Literary Things: Tina Biswas

June 2011

Recent research has suggested that choices--in both sexes--are often guided more by emotion than by intellect. (See the behavior of our government for all too many examples.) With that in mind and taking sentiment as the emotional content of what...

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