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I did it. I published a book.
The first e-book offering from little old me.
Yep. I did it. It wasn’t traditional. It wasn’t even my favorite book. I know, you shouldn’t say that. But I have become filterless in the last short while… beware the “f” bomb, people.
I blame it on the world. I am, like most writers filled with doubt about the publishing world- the book as we once knew it is probably changing forever. And along with that, is the way we acquire, market and buy both the author and the book.
So what’s a girl to do? Give up her dream? Stand …
Famous Writer’s Birthdays Today
Straight from Garrison Keillor, a man who my children hate to hear drone in the car- they claim his voice induces car sickness…
From The Writer’s Almanac: January 25th
It’s the birthday of the novelist and essayist Virginia Woolf, (books by this author) born Virginia Stephen in London (1882). She never went to school, but her father chose books for her to read from his own library. She was only allowed to move out of her family home after her father’s death, when she was 22. She moved into a house with her brothers and sister, and instead of writing …
Free book from “Wicked” Author
Now that’s marketing!
I read this in The New Yorker and think the charity contribution part is brilliant. I have attended many book launches where they request a donation to a charity that is linked to the book’s theme or a character in the book.
When I finished writing We’re Not Waving, We’re Drowning, I began thinking about marketing, about tie-ins about media… this is all part of the business. The part we’re not supposed to think about while writing, and yet…
I have begun searching for charities in Savannah, charities related to literacy, book provision, education, and even …
Let's talk books. And book covers.
For as many of my author friends who are ecstatic about the way their book covers turned out.. there must be someone in the wings feeling a bit put out.
Have you seen this story? Got to agree with the author on that one.
And then there’s this one: Yikes.
There is even a contest for the worst covers. Here’s the 2005 finalists.
Some bad book covers I found are funny because they’re out dated: like these
and some I have to say I like, you know, for the art.
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