Tag Archive | Informative
Mega-List of University Literary Journals Accepting Submissions in Fiction, Poetry, Art, CNF…
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by Erica Verrillo on Publishing … and Other Forms of Insanity: You may wonder why you should submit to literary journals run by MFA programs. They seldom pay, and they often charge to submit. Normally, either one of those factors would be enough to eliminate…
Facebook Doesn’t Make It Easy to Delete Your Account. Here’s How to Do It…
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By Minda Zetlin on Inc.com: Facebook has come in for a lot of criticism lately, and one of the biggest is that it collects a massive amount of personal information on each of its users and uses that information for its ad targeting. Then there’s…
10 Tips for Finding Memorable Character Names for your Fiction…
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By Anne R. Allen “Agnes Gooch,” “Mr. McCawber,” “Albus Dumbledore”: memorable names of memorable characters. How can writers come up with character names that readers will never forget? In his painfully funny 2006 book, Famous Writing School, a Novel, Stephen Carter’s writing teacher-protagonist advises his students…
100 General Creative Writing Prompts (Fiction Ideas Vol. 1) FREE 20th to 23rd January…
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Hello, Chris. I have just published the first in a series of 10 nonfiction booklets. It will be FREE Wednesday, Jan. 20 to Saturday, Jan. 23, then the regular price will be $0.99 USD. Thank you very much for the opportunity. Kate M. Colby 100…
When Your Book Publicity Campaign Comes To An End…
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by Gretchen Crary on Just Publishing Advice: When Publicity Ends Marketing Can Continue Publicity is a dish best served warm. That’s what I tell clients who come to me looking for publicity help after the book has already gone on sale. A typical query goes: “My…
EDITING 101: 48 – Using Quotes in Your Book and Research Tips – Part 1…
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Using Quotes in Your Book and Research Tips (Part 1) As often as I run into authors wanting to use song lyrics in their novels, I also run into authors wanting to use quotes in their non-fiction books. (If you missed the post about using…
Master List of Ways to Describe Happiness and Joy…
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By Bryn Donovan: I make a lot of my writing lists with two goals in mind: cut down on the time you spend trying to think of a simple phrase when you’re writing, and help you switch things up by giving you more options. That’s…
Poetry Organizations from Across the United States Join Together to Offer Programs on the theme Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body
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Extract from The Academy of American Poets site: New York, NY (February 26, 2018)—This March the more than twenty organizations in ten cities nationwide that compose the Poetry Coalition will launch Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body, the coalition’s second…
Book clinic: Why do publishers still issue hardbacks?
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Editor Philip Jones, on ‘The Guardian’ Online: The editor of the Bookseller explains why the hardback format will be with us for a while yet. Read the article HERE
Moving From Createspace To Amazon KDP Paperback Publishing…
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by Derek Haines on Just Publishing Advice: Createspace is coming to an end If you have published paperback titles using Createspace, it is time to think about moving your books to Amazon KDP. (Kindle Direct Publishing) There have been many problems with Createspace over the…
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