Tag: publishers
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June 18, 2007 07:16 AM EDT --
It's the age-old, unanswerable question, but one company, at least, is trying to address the publishing version. A recent study conducted last spring by an outfit called contentconnections.com suggests, . . . more
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June 11, 2007 06:39 AM EDT --
How can you tell it's a book fair if there's no complaining? By that definition, last weekend's BEA was certainly a book fair. The Expo had not even officially started when the drum beat began: . . . more
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May 04, 2008 07:21 PM EDT --
There is a bill currently before both houses of the U.S. Congress which will essentially revoke the Copyright Act. I have links below to both the House and Senate versions of this bill, laughingly titles . . . more
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August 13, 2006 10:40 AM EDT --
Ego is a healthy thing for a writer to have. Without it, we would probably not have the confidence to ever submit any of our writing for publication. Without it, we would have no incentive . . . more
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April 30, 2007 09:32 AM EDT --
It comes as no surprise - some would say it’s about time - that one of the themes running through many of the discussions at the London Book Fair the other week was the use of the Internet in the . . . more
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May 21, 2007 09:36 AM EDT --
I think it's fair to say that what preoccupies the minds of most book people is the question of which books sell, and why. The rumble around this issue has gotten louder in recent weeks, amid news . . . more
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June 25, 2007 09:28 AM EDT --
I haven't seen A Mighty Heart yet, and I probably will – but it isn't without some trepidation, despite the good advance reviews the movie has gotten. I'm often afraid, or at least anxious . . . more
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March 15, 2008 10:25 AM EDT --
The Writers' Union of Canada contest re: Writing for Children offers a prize of $1500 - and the winner and finalists' work will be submitted to three publishers of children's books.
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June 17, 2008 01:43 PM EDT --
Time was when you could go to Paris, or London, or Rome and bring back something really French, or English, or Italian. You still can, but it's getting harder. These days, people all over the globe . . . more
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October 18, 2007 02:57 PM EDT --
The OP is apparently marketing some sort of service to writers, where the writers pay for the right to submit work to participating publishers. Now as a small publisher, the potential of a service . . . more
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March 10, 2008 10:47 AM EDT --
I want an agent and a publisher, in whatever order it takes. I have come to understand the value of having someone else help publicize my work, and I'm tired of bookstores refusing to let me do book . . . more
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July 02, 2007 09:06 AM EDT --
The group that gathered last Thursday at New York Public Library’s Science Industry and Business Library for the unveiling of former Random House honcho and by now industry curmudgeon/visionary Jason . . . more
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June 03, 2006 11:32 AM EDT --
GATHERITES HAVE BEEN HELPFUL
I have a previous posting requesting help in naming my memoir. THe responses I have . . . more
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August 14, 2006 10:34 PM EDT --
She was a good editor. She delved so deeply into manuscripts that she could write revisions seamlessly: linguistically, no-one would be able to tell the author's original words and her extra phrase, . . . more
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May 28, 2007 09:29 AM EDT --
The summer begins, and with it, the dread "summer reading." I say "dread" because for those of us in and around the book business, the choices we make of what to read for pleasure are . . . more
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June 10, 2007 07:22 PM EDT --
It's time for me to shout and celebrate...a little short story I wrote is to be published by ...A Long Story Short...in their July issue of their e-zine. I am so happy, never thought I would see the . . . more
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September 14, 2007 09:23 AM EDT --
Writing scams abound on the internet. Anyone with an e-mail address can claim to be a publisher, and too many writers are too eager to get published. In reality, there is no reason to fall . . . more
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November 28, 2007 01:14 PM EST --
I got the following e-mail today:
"Dear Affiliates, As someone who has in the past signed up for the firstwriter.com affiliate program, we thought you might be interested to hear about . . . more
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June 15, 2008 11:01 PM EDT --
June 16's guest bloggers on MURDER BY 4 is Cait Meyer, publisher of BeWrite Books (UK). If you write fiction, her article titled "Surviving the Submissions Process will be of interest to you. . . . more
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June 19, 2008 02:51 PM EDT --
If you've run out of big publishing houses to send your book proposals to. Or, if you're looking for that just right publisher to match up with your manuscript, check out newpages.com and . . . more
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