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...
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I know many others who, like myself, have a love/hate of Amazon, but essentially my view of Amazon is a business-only point of view, and I would encourage everyone to...
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@Joyce - thanks for the compliment! We both try to use these forums to help and inform as well as to learn from others.
@Virginia - Jim is big on digging out the facts...
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Jackie,
That 'heckler' was an officer in the southwest arm of a prestigious worldwide writing organization.
After this event, the president wanted to speak to me to...
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"Since e-books cost less, publishers and authors make less—and the literary agent gets a much smaller cut." I'm not sure about this statement. The profit for publisher...
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Thanks so much, Julija! As a first-time author, I found all of this very familiar. I have an agent, and she's done her best, but my book Fast Times in Palestine, which...
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The unpublished manuscript of my novel was shortlisted for an award, I had a publishing contract in hand and yet I chose to self-publish. But not before I'd hired an e...
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I'm very curious about the question Brit Columbia asks. I'm looking to update my email addresses in the future, but I have found that by using my gmail accounts, it ha...
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Jill, what's some of the best advice you have received? Also, I'm curious about book that wasn't selling. Did you find a way to increase sales? Were you able to figure out why it wasn't selling?
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I agree with much of Cait's analysis, which is why I hadn't been to BookExpo for a few years. This year I went partly to meet everyone from SWP! That said, I do think...
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