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  • The only benefit I can see here is educating consumers on the fact that they're not the customers of Facebook--they're the product. That's a healthy revelation. For an...
  • Thanks for pushing me for more detail, Kelly. I love that. I had to go back and look at my proposal. It's been awhile. Most of my chapter summaries are 1-2 paragraphs,...
  • I definitely consider writing a vocation. I've been doing it since age thirteen: mostly, I later realized, as a vehicle for therapy and self-understanding. But I didn'...
  • It's one thing to have designated ad space in publications that traditionally have it, but to add products into a story to make extra money seems low. It drives me cra...
  • Excellent points and column, Brooke! I would like to make an observation: Paperback discounts affect Create Space authors a lot, and here Amazon acts quite predatory a...
  • Congrats, Deborah! You know, sometimes I still--eleven years in--can't believe that I'm in charge of a moving vehicle, much less another human being. For me, I wonde...
  • Perhaps it is the nature of the muse but words are a vehicle to cope. For me, poetry is the way that I process things in this wonderful life. Often, I have written a p...
  • Zetta Brown commented on her article Borders Should Just Go Bust
    Thanks, Lovenia. This is just an example of waste in the industry. I think if authors and publishers demanded bookstores to change their practices--and encouraged cons...
  • I don't know about them during WWII but I'm slow reading Diana Souhami's 'Gertrude and Alice' and have just finished the period during WWI when they had a vehicle sent...
  • Hi, I am a successful self-published author of historical mysteries (Maids of Misfortune and Uneasy Spirits) and most of my sales have been through Amazon's Kindle (so...