News & Events- Interesting Read on one of the bigger publishing companies November 19, 2015http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/financial-reporting/article/68492-six-months-sales-up-at-bloomsbury-but-earnings-dip.html
- Some more stats on self publishing November 14, 2015http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2014/self-publishing-maturing-up-17-last-year-in-the-u-s/
- Interesting Read on one of the bigger publishing companies November 19, 2015
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Poetry is Prose
Good prose is poetry. You can’t really turn that sentence around, but it’s important to acknowledge that poetry is a fundamental factor to most good writing. Poetic devices are not limited to only poems, neither are rhythms and rhymes. Perhaps … Continue reading
Revision
If you peek into your desktop history and pull out a piece you wrote three years ago, I almost grantee that it will be an excruciatingly painful read. If it isn’t then kudos to you for having a high tolerance … Continue reading
Nicholas Sparks
Personally, I am not quite a fan of Sparks novels, but he brings up several very important points in this essay. Give it a read—publishing with big companies might not always be the best option. http://nicholassparks.com/for-writers/the-business-introduction/
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Fairytales
Once upon a time, when you were younger, your parents probably regurgitated fairytales to you the way your baby brother regurgitated his applesauce after meals. Vomit didn’t create the most favorable patterns on clothes, nor did those fairytales fabricate into … Continue reading
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Music
On the beach, he put your earbud in his left ear, and you traced, with your eyes, the black wire that fell from the ear piece till it wove into your music player. Show him some classics, some of the … Continue reading
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Distractions
There’s so much going on in this day and age. A brief look at social media will show you—twitter, Facebook, Instagram, email, Imessage—that with so many platforms to connect and update, it’s near impossible avoid distraction while online. Similarly, on … Continue reading
Quick Tips
Some tips for those who wish to delve into the world of self publishing. Highlights: “Self-published authors are ‘dominating traditionally published authors’ in sci-fi/fantasy, mystery/thriller, and romance genres but — and here is the surprise — they are also … Continue reading
War
When you were younger, in your teens, perhaps you went through an acne phase, where marks of instable adolescent hormones drew crop-circle -like scars around your face. Or perhaps you had a pair of thin-wire framed glasses that were just … Continue reading