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  1. Sedayne

    News New Tiffany Yates Martin book out today.

    https://foxprinteditorial.com/my-books/ FYI: new Tiffany Yates Martin book out today. I know a lot of us have found her previous book Intuitive Editing invaluable. This looks like another essential addition to the writer's bookshelf.
  2. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day If writing and publishing a book is....

    If writing and publishing a book is like giving birth to a child, then book marketing is like rearing it. Heather Hart
  3. Pamela Jo

    Craft Chat The 8 Thing's You'll Never Be Now That Yu Are Turning Into a Giant Spider Creature

    I just loved that title. Interesting interview and evidence there are places to sell stories even today. Authors of Issue 146: Alex Sobel New 47 minutes ago Alex Sobel, author of "The Eight Things You'll Never Be Now That You're Slowly Turning Into a Giant Spider Creature", joined us for an...
  4. tyes

    Craft Chat Apps for Beta Reading

    I am now working through the process of facilitating beta reading for my second novel. Like my first novel, collating everyone's feedback, comments, highlights etc is then a manual effort on my part, since I have issued the novel as a printed book. A 'tracked changes' Word document would make...
  5. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day Writing is a socially....

    “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.” E. L. Doctorow
  6. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day Everything's already been....

    Everything’s already been said, but since no one was listening, we have to start again. André Gide
  7. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day It takes an awful.....

  8. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day All my writing has....

    All my writing has been an effort ton sort nout the paradoxes of my life. Nancy Friday
  9. E G Logan

    News Breathless with admiration...

    Publisher Pan Macmillan today announced it has signed a further 20-book contract with Danielle Steel. Steel has written more than 200 novels 'with sales well over one billion copies', according to Pan Macmillan. She is currently publishing seven first-format titles a year; her most recent book...
  10. From Our Blog

    Blog Post: The Seven Deadly (Writers’) Sins…

    New blog post by AgentPete – discussions in this thread, please --- Come over here for a moment, would you? But be careful of the edge of the table, it’s rather sharp. Good. Now you can see things from my side of the desk. That towering pile you see in front of you? It’s what some unkind...
  11. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day Proofread carefully to....

    Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. Dave Barry Dave Barry
  12. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day To go wrong in.....

    To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's. Fyodor Dostoevsky
  13. Fairexchange2024

    Book Club New here

    Hi, first day here. I write Mystery/Thriller. My new book Fair Exchange is coming out Sep. 3d. I trad. publish. I'm looking forward to sharing and learning. Thank you.
  14. Matthew WP

    Self-Publishing Hey everyone, I'm back!

    Well, it's been a heck of a year :rolleyes: sparing everyone the details, our immediate family (me, my wife and both our fathers) were struck with various cancers so... #fuckcancer Now that's over with, I've come back out of hiatus and I'm back to writing again. I published my fourth book just...
  15. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day A popular author....

    A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else. Ambrose Bierce
  16. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day No author dislikes....

    No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. J. Russell Lynes
  17. K

    Urgent information for KU authors

    Hi all, I know I haven't been around these last few weeks and there is a very valid reason. I was recently the victim of fraud, but considering its nature I wanted to share my post about it here. Given events I believe someone specifically targeted me as an author on KU and almost got me...
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