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  • I was cruising along toward my various goals when I got sick. I don't get sick, but I did get sick. For more than a week, the finest doctors in the world could not fig...
  • Thanks for the no-nonsense insights into your book evaluation process. I've been doing the social media, platform building you talk about, but find they aren't magic b...
  • Your article brings memories of our childhood when my mother took my sisters and me downtown.  One of the nicest stores was Wolf & Marx.  Such wondrous surprises...
  • I also like the 3/4inch bright colored stickie tabs for marking chapters because they are reusable, but you many need to go to the sale  bin at an office supply shop. 
  • Re Brooke: I don't know their discount. But the fact is that as a Create Space author you can only have expanded distribution channel (which means everything but Amazo...
  • So, here's a true story. I Nanoed last year. Wrote the requisite pages and then some on a novel that I have wanted to write for so long. For me, Nano was motivation an...
  • Amy, I'm so glad I saw this because I've just been thinking about Angelina Jolie and her daughter Zahara(?). Well, Zahara's not mixed race, but from the few photos I'v...
  • Thanks Ellen. I also noticed that when I tried to write explicitly political fiction, it was tedious, overly intellectualized, and a fact dump. When I let myself switc...
  • Thank you for writing this insightful article, Ellen. The questions are especially helpful. And, for me, there's no right answers to them. But rather how I feel about the answers I supply.
  •   <<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...