The other day I blogged about the "World's First Pre-Publisher." For those of you who missed it, here is the basic principle of how this program works.  read more »

One of the things that annoys me to no end is folks who take advantage of others, especially by preying on their dreams. Poetry.com comes to mind when I think about places that take advantage of the new writer and their dreams of being published. I'm sure you've all seen them...  read more »

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These questions come from The Verb, December 2007:
http://www.readingwriters.com/VERB-Dec07-p2.htm

This is an excellent monthly online magazine. I like these so much that I'm sharing.

(from The Verb) Here are the Top Twelve Storytelling Questions to ask yourself before you contact another agency. If you can’t answer these in, say, five seconds, your story has problems.  read more »

Writing a book is the easy part. The hard part begins when you attempt to publish and market the book. In this article, I’ll share the publishing options available today. This will provide you with information needed to make a decision about how you will bring your book to the market.  read more »

Whenever we experience the death of a loved one, we must find ways to cope with our loss and feelings of grief. Karen Arlettaz Zemek turned to writing. Not only did she find this therapeutic, her newly published book may even help others who are dealing with the events following the death of someone close.  read more »

I ran this question on various writer's forums on Yahoo. I wanted to try and nail down the "kernel of knowledge" that motivates one to buy a particular book be it author, cover, blurbs, word of mouth, etc. The interesting thing that I noticed as the comments came in and the topic evolved, was not so much how one buys a book, but where.  read more »

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"'We were getting 6,000 [unsolicited manuscripts] a year which we had a work-experience girl reading a page of once every so often,' he says. 'We had only discovered two books on the slush pile in the previous however many years. It was just unfortunate that one of those was Lord of the Rings so we felt a certain obligation to keep looking."  read more »