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  • Zetta Brown commented on her article Borders Should Just Go Bust
    @N. Angail - yes, stripping books is a very disturbing idea, and the fact that it's been happening for decades, you can understand how completely wasteful the entire p...
  • This is why, at FutureCycle Press, we publish both: first the printed book (in print-on-demand format) and then the ebook about six months to a year later. The print-o...
  • I was a professional writer (business and high tech) for 36 years, and in that job I would say, smugly, that I didn't believe in writers' block.  When you have materia...
  • Hi Deborah, I hear you loud and clear. You really get down to the bone as Natalie Goldberg's book says. My writing life is saddled with a grown-up, husband's and my ow...
  • I'm on round two now with two different publishers. The first was mid-sized, the second is small. Both are indie. The first gave me an advance, which I earned out, the...
  •   <<Regardless, this is more about perception and how our culture values e-books, which was the point of this piece. I think it's pretty clear that the vast majo...
  • I agree with some of your points but on some of them, the perspective is more from an author than really investigating possibilities 20 years from now. Yes, the book w...
  • Hi, Brooke, I note your comment twoard the bottom that we live in a "confessional society," which fosters a readership for misery memoir.  That, along with our cult of...
  • Comment by Alexandra Arres just nowDelete Comment Sorry, Brooke, but Create Space, the last time I checked has relationships with Libraries, same like Ingram, through...
  • In my opinion, with all the crazy politics of the GOP and Dems fighting, the wars and tensions in the Middle East, the crisis in Japan, our attention spans have grown...