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  • My first story was taken by the Alaska Quarterly Review. It was a funny experience, very informal. Ronald Spatz sent me an email asking if it was still available. I sa...
  • Great post over at Hugo House. If you're moving from art-making to sales (aka publication), you have to move from artistic craft to the discipline of the salesperson -...
  • Kimberly - too bad, but keep at it no matter the number - just use it as an exercise in discipline. To me, writing is like working out and running or anything that req...

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  • Sherrie Wilkolaski is right, an author who wants to self-publish really has to do it properly, or they're shooting themselves in the foot putting out a book that is de...
  • Garine, you definitely have what it takes to be an author. Writing a book is hard, marketing a book is equally hard and at times, immensely harder! Your essay should be read by everyone trying to get a blurb, it shows textbook technique and persistence. Loved it! 
  • "Over time, I learned to trust myself as a writer.  Sentences clanged in my ears when they needed to be rewritten."   I had the same experience.  Over the course of th...