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This Week in Indie Publishing

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How Self Publishing Can Create a Solid Brand

It’s a big question in the business space: Is it better to self-publish a book or pitch it to a big publisher? It comes back to why you’re publishing a book in the first place. And with self publishing becoming easier than ever, Amazon has become loaded with best-sellers.

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Persistence leads to success for Northern Virginia author

For the better part of five years, Kwame Alexander sat in a Woodbridge Panera for five hours a day, toiling away on his novel. Back in those days, the acclaimed author was living in Rippon Landing and raising his teenage daughter as she worked her way through Freedom High School. While he thought he’d found a winning formula for a children’s book, penning a tale about two, young twin brothers written entirely in poetic verse, he endured rejection…

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About The Owl Lady

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Viv Drewa is a Michigan native who has enjoyed reading and writing since 1963. Though she studied medicinal chemistry at the University of Michigan, her passion has always been writing. She had been awarded third place for her nonfiction short story about her grandfather's escape from Poland. Later, she rewrote this story and was published in the "Polish American Journal" as "From the Pages of Grandfather's Life" and has republished it on Amazon.com as a short story. Viv took creative and journalism courses to help in her transition to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer. She worked as an intern for Port Huron's 'The Times Herald", and also wrote, edited and did the layout or the Blue Water Multiple Sclerosis newsletter "Thumb Prints." She also has a business promoting authors. Owl and Pussycat Book Promotions. Viv, her husband Bob and their cat Princess, live in Port Huron, Michigan.

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