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  • I priced the first book at 99 cents for several reasons.  I did not want to give it away for free (that is what the sample is for). It was my first endeavor on epublis...
  • @Jolie...Your words ring true in my experience and personal observations, too.  "...(Just because you can self-publish a book doesn't mean you should if you don't have...
  • Three weeks ago, I quit my job. My perfectly fine full-time marketing job that pays pretty well and makes life around me comfortable because I never have to think too...
  •    Thank you for the mention of my essay and  books! I actually love the controversy, which landed me on NPR this week and led to  hundreds of emails,  calls, tweets a...
  • Judith - This is a very candid, and quite helpful post! Thank you! I agree with you on the value of hiring a professional - they know how to do all of those little thi...
  • I enjoyed your post Julie.  Last year I donated the sales of 50 of my poetry books to the Friends of Old Seven organization.  They have a small sales tent set up at th...
  • Ann, what a wonderful story, and everyone else's  stories are great, too. Each of us has her own path. I think I was born thinking I was a writer; always obsessed with...
  • Sunny Frazier commented on her article DAVID VS GOLIATH
    The murder? This is a huge case in my small town. A wealthy and lazy almond farmer's son, caught by his ex-wife taking money out of the children's trust funds to suppo...
  • I'm always following social class in one way or another, and lately with promoting Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir I've been thinking about the many women who are...
  • Carleen, I self-published my first book. It took a lot of money a broke sister didn't have, but I did it anyway. I have another story (I did pay an editor to do the ed...