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Want to be published, and succeed? Here are just a few things you may need to know how to do.

  • write a kick ass book
  • land a fantastic, eager, well-connected literary agent
  • do all you can to help sell your book through self-promotion
  • spend money, lots of money
  •  get a web presence with blog, facebook, twitter, linkedin, good reads
  • hire a publicist
  • understand online marketing and advertising
  • jump on the e-book bandwagon
  • sell… but don’t sell out
  • write another book
  •  and another

Great insight on what publishing is like today from a pro… check it out.

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Should you join the digital revolution? This guy’s got the answers.

Here it is. One stop shopping for answers to the quaetions you’ve been asking yourself.

*insert hauntingly mystical soundtrack here*

 

Links to posts by David Gaughran, found on his blog: Let’s Get Digital.…

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New books become films before they are printed as books?

Hollywood can make a full feature film is less time than Simon and Schuster can print a book. What's wrong with picture-- or, How to kill off readers, in your sloth.
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Tax Day Pub Economics

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and
the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their
bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something
like this:

The first four men (the poorest) would pay
nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

So, that’s what they decided to do.

The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed
quite happy with the …

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Money- a renewal resource.

I am usually the one giving advice– wanted or not. This month I am happy to be on the receiving end, as the 2 best pieces of advice come to me:

LIVE “AS IF”
SPEND. IT’S ONLY MONEY. YOU CAN ALWAYS MAKE MORE.…

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