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There is much info on upgrading but none that I can find phone closing one's account and exiting Litopia. How do I do this?

At the end of a long career publishing fiction, memoir, biography, local history, etc. I have one more books left in me: The Encyclopedia of Self-Publishing. I have been fortunate enough to place my books without the services of an agent but for this last word I do need help. Old age is closing...

If only someone had recommended this line to me in my youth I would've have much more successful social life: "tell me about yourself." It has always worked for me.

A beautiful, wonderful prize. Thank you Paul.

Don't forget the power of style, as in The Sound of the Fury: Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting. They were coming toward where the flag was and I went along the fence. Luster was hunting in the grass by the flower tree. They took the flag out, and...

For Katie-Ellen, Rachel, Amber, Rainbird, Robinne, Nmlee, Sea-Shore, and so many more ..... From Tom Ladies of Loveliness Ladies of loveliness everywhere Especially those beside us here Delight our eyes, our hearts, our souls. We hold you close and dear. Make no...

I write for publication but do editing for a living. What I charge the author is directly related to the state of the manuscript he or she submits to me. Some manuscripts are in pretty good shape to start with, and these will merit a fee at the lower end of a sliding scale. Others require much...

As usual I am own worst enemy as I work on my latest fiction, The Editor. It doesn't matter that people I admire have complemented my work; that I have published other successful books; that I have had things featured on the front covers of important magazines. What matters is that in my own...

Somehow, no matter how hard I try, my proofreading comes up short. I was reminded of this, unhappily, when the first 700 words of my new novel The Editor was on Pop Ups last weekend. Rich did a beautiful job reading the text, glossing nicely over the errors as he encountered them. I read my...

My writing is going very swell.

If I spent as much time writing as I spend worrying about whether or not my stuff is any good, I would have completed dozens of novels by now.

I want to use these four lines from Alfred de Vigny's poem La flute in a book I am working on. with the exception of the last line, which is clear, the passage is difficult for me to translate. I am reasonably fluent in French and fairly widely read in that language, but I can't quite get...

Now that I have managed to upload my 700 words to pop up submissions, how do I know if my stuff is accepted for discussion and if accepted when it will fit onto the schedule. And thanks for all the help I've gotten with this.

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Do you get an error message? No If so, what is that error message? If you don't get an error message--what happens instead? Little circular arrow goes endlessly