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  • There are certainly lots of good writers' groups, online and in the real world. As has been mentioned in this thread, indie bookstores and libraries are often good pla...
  • I balked on the opener, too. Kept thinking a sentence or paragraph got dropped. The rest of the material is interesting and supportive, but it needs to hang on a solid...
  • Hi Ariel, I joined this group because I first worked for and then owned a regional small press for over 10 years. It isn't cheap to publish books and small presses jus...
  • thank you for creating this group. I am Joy, from Chicago. Presently I am working on Creating a definitive guide on How to make a healthy relation work and stand the test of times.
  • Rebecca - where in Vermont are you? I dropped my older son at music camp in Weston last weekend and have been visiting a friend in Burlington, though now I've dropped...
  • Started by Anjuelle Floyd
    Last reply by Zetta Brown
    Must everything we, as authors and writers of the African Diaspora craft address race? I think not. And yet the very act of facing oppression, much of it due to the c...
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  • Started by E Victoria Flynn
    Last reply by Tania Pryputniewicz
    QUESTION Mother Writer! When Mother Writer! was started it was a great discussion forum, bursting with new friendships and huge amounts of advice and commiseration. MW...
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  • Judith, I think the Espresso Book Machine sounds cool! I'd love to see my book pop out of one of those. When I set up my files with Lightning Source I'll have to inqu...
  • Some of my work in the past came from listings on mediabistro & Craigslist. Presently I know the owner of one of the pubs I write for and I approached the owner/editor of the other. My consulting work usually stems from feedback I give people about their sites.
  • OK, this is what I did to get past these problems: 1) I wrote on my wall (it's chalkboard painted) "Embrace the shitty first draft", which is something one of my tutor...