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  • There have been several dialogues going on and sometimes, not always, feelings about "The Help" are drawn along regional lines. Southern black women were more favorabl...
  • Thanks Sarah - I appreciate your candor.  Most of the query letters I've seen seem like a synopsis trying to be "tempting."  I recognize that I need to be more jazzy,...
  • Tosh, Promotion is promotion whether it is online or in person. E-publishing is not for the faint of heart or a person you can not sell themselves. It is hard work. Pe...

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    Let’s say I were like the journalist Mahmoud al-Sawadi in Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad. Mahmoud lucked into a period of preventive detention and had time to...
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    Touched By Adoption More On Rejection & Some Advice About Coping In a recent a...e eased with an apology or a good night’s sleep. Just like minor slights, moderate hurts – like sharing a co...

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  • Hi Emily, Don't be scared and keep writing. What you're seeing is a culmination of rel...lusive in retail book chains because they still operate in this Depression Era mode. Support your libraries in an...
  • Hi Kamy, I will be happy to give you my two cents on the matter.  As a successful self-published author, publishing consultant and book publicist...I am a HUGE fan of...
  • Stephanie, there are so many issues to confront here, seriously. I think we need a secret publisher FB group to start to list out the main points of advocacy and then see what we can tackle and what's realistic. Would you be on board for that? I can/will invite you as a founding publisher.