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  • I can relate to your feelings regarding passing out your manuscript to family and friends.  A friend of mine who is struggling through his first novel said that if he...
  • Terrific essay! At some level, most things I do are for love - of the natural world or of people in it, including friends, family, and self. But I've never thought of...
  • Only found 6 Music because of the hoohah. Are we surprised at its low audience numbers? Should we be? Well no as most of the UK can't get it on their radios yet, including a very large proportion of the south east, much of the north east and a large chunk of nearly everywhere else!
  • As a woman of 51 who (apart from a couple of minor things) hasn't really been published yet, I cannot but concur. Such lists should not even exist, because writing is...
  • Partner Publishing is another consideration. As of this week I have a new position with Five Star Publications: http://fivestarpublications.com/ as their marketing con...
  • Cheryl -  So sorry you are having such a hard time. Two quick tidbits to share that helped me through some serious pain many years ago. I tried everything to help myse...
  • Paulette - the list was from a self employed copy editor, who said she does not make all the spelling corrections etc., only the obvious catches along her way.  So I u...
  • AMEN and Thank You!! Not only is it hard for women writers to be reviewed favorably in the main-stream media, it's hard for them to be published as anything other than...
  • I feel like that old TV ad "When...speaks, we listen"...it was an ad for a financial institution...but in my writing life, when you speak, Brooke, I listen. I self-pub...
  • I'd like to recommend the submissions tracker in Duotrope and Duotrope in general. Not only does Duotrope maintain a database of over 5000 places to submit that can be...