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For some reason, I found a lot of fun things this month (fun being a relative term, of course!) * Using an e-reader to hide one’s reading preferences. Interesting …. * Historical fans — a real voucher for Almack’s, from Back In The Day. Wow. Preserved all this time. * You know, this is right. … [Read more…]
Do you have content you need written and either lack of time or skill to get it done? Have you considered hiring a ghostwriter? Ghostwriters are pretty hardworking people. They spend a lot of time focusing on ghostwriting and becoming better ghostwriters. The truth is that their experience can be helpful for providing your readers … [Read more…]
Author Jennifer Estep told me about Michael Zapp early last summer. He converts Word files into epub and Mobi books and only charges $15 for both. At the time I was doing my own conversions, but I kept getting errors on my epub books. I finally decided it was well worth paying Michael the $15. … [Read more…]
My two favorite writing books are On Writing, by Stephen King, and Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott. While they share certain elements – mainly, that they both contain excellent advice on writing, but also wonderful insight to life in general, and the writing life in particular. Inspirational, beautifully written, and in moments profound, it’s … [Read more…]
Okay, you’ve finished writing and polishing your young adult manuscript. Now what? Let’s say you’ve decided to go the “traditional” publishing route–then your next step is to query agents. Sure, it is possible to sell a YA manuscript without an agent, but it’ll be much harder (and usually happens when an author makes a connection … [Read more…]