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  • Hi Emily, Don't be scared and keep writing. What you're seeing is a culmination of rel...lusive in retail book chains because they still operate in this Depression Era mode. Support your libraries in an...
  • Hi, Mary, Great idea. I will share it with my students and credit you. A questions: is there a reason you follow-up via snail-mail rather than e-mail? One questions: it
  • @Karyne - Some of the things plaguing the publishing industry today come from the Depression Era: advances and book returns. Both spawned from this period to allow wri...
  • Cate, to be really clear, the returns "problem" is not customers returning their purchases; it...ordering more than they can ever sell and returning in bulk to distributors who then "cred...
  • Interesting. Born and bred in the Netherlands, and with a background in multicultural theater I'm often surprised by the differences between the U.S. and the Netherlan...
  • Heidi it cost me under $200. If I had to pay for everything it would've been about $5000, but all the vendors including the actual venue donated their time, talents, a...
  • Just earned a small credit for one of my ebooks from Amazon's KDP.  I hope that such earnings will snowball over time!
  • I would have to agree. I have spent 20 years in marketing - all male-dominated technical industries (machine tools, engineering, high-tech R&D). I credit the fact...
  • Though I've been writing almost all my life, writing a novel was contingent on so many things that it just became a general "someday" plan. There were many little step...
  • Great piece on the fluidity of sexuality. If you're interested in going on camera about this experience, there's a casting call for something in this similar vain: htt...