Category: Publishing Industry
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Do Duotrope!
(From my forthcoming 2nd Edition to Publishing and Marketing Realities for the Emerging Author) Duotrope lists virtually every market for short stories and provides a handy submission tracking device. I truly can’t recommend Duotrope highly enough. You can research markets by genre, pay, story length, and more. As you research, you can save particular markets…
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Choose CreateSpace over LSI
As I said in my Publishing & Marketing Realities book: Amazon is an author’s best friend. Hands down. I stick by that statement even two years later. Even though so much has changed in the publishing industry it’s hardly even recognizable from what it was two years ago. Amazon, although it’s had its own changes,…
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Emerging Author Spotlight: Rickey Pittman
Guest post by emerging author Rickey Pittman… The Stories Left Out of the History Books I am a storyteller and I search for the stories that have been lost, forgotten, or neglected, the stories that have been left out of the history books. Sometimes I search for them–sometimes they come to me while I’m searching…
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Little-in-Big Stories
This guest post was riginally posted on May 7, 2012 at Making It Up As I Go by emerging author Dan Thompson. Excellent blog. He’s got another great recent article about marketing, or Unmarketing, as he puts it. Check him out! —-{—-{@ One of my favorite kinds of stories isn’t identifiable by ray…
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5 Ways to Get Noticed and Earn a Full-Time Writing Job
Once you’ve found your calling, it’s difficult to devote yourself to a job in an unrelated field. However, as you’re working on perfecting your manuscript, it’s still necessary to earn an income and support yourself in the meantime. Luckily, there are ways to work towards refining your writing skills and make money doing so. Developing…