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  • I just had this converstion with a friend yesterday. We were in Barnes and Noble talking about missing the small book stores, and holding books in our hands. It's iron...
  • On the book cover the photographed legs look like those of a white woman? Why would you do that? Black woman are so beautiful!! And either black or white, you are stil...
  • Great article and so vastly true. Word of mouth advertising is the best advertising you can get. Who knows you better than those you care about.  And yes, writing book...
  • @Jo, I hear you. Thanks for sharing this. I'm not sure that reviews—paid or not—result in sales. If any of that surge was the result of the reviews then that's a good...
  • Thank you Eileen for your great insight!  I agree with narrowing the target to a specific demographic for those types of ads, which is going to be somewhat hard for me - 15 to 24 year olds who like to read in the US!!  I think I will spend my money on the other types of advertising mentioned...  Jan
  • “Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.”  What Frost meant, I think, is that at 30 a woman can stop time...she's beautiful,...
  • "Twitter is like a party".  Great observation.  I tend to use twitter to make announcements and spread the word about something.  Otherwise, I am afraid it will take u...
  • I heard about this today in a podcast and I found it very interesting. When someone chooses to be a writer, they haven't signed up for the Starving Artists Guild. I th...
  • Good solid pitch advice; it's easy to walk away wounded but I think your strategy of keeping in the game for the future is the way to make use of all the work you've a...
  • Christelle, Thanks for writing back. "4-6 months before" is much easier if a person is not self-publishing. And if the indie writer misses that mark? What's the next b...