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The Power of Cover Art
This is the story of how someone else’s cover art can sell your book. Cover art is powerful. *That* image, which you recognize as a thumbnail, or even as a corner of a tattered paperback sticking out...
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Dinner Discussion 1: Micro-analytics
It makes me feel small and little on the inside, and kindles those sensations of self-doubt and social anxiety. It’s like hearing other people you know talk shit about your best friend. Noteably, these...
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A Post in Which I Bitch Generally About Copyediting or the Lack Thereof.
Yesterday, I did some research on DAW and found a lot of interesting stuff. So, I feel not too mean about using one of their pubs as an example for the subject of this post. Ok, that’s not true. I feel...
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Roll down the window!
So I’m sitting in the car, the Hubs and I are driving someplace and we’re listening to an audiobook of his choice. Fiction, fantasy. I’m getting ready to roll down the window and dash my brains out on...
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Banned Books
The topic of banning books just makes me incoherently angry and I am unable to put my thoughts into words. Chuck does it very well: http://chuck-parker.net/wordpress/?p=4115
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An Opportunity
There’s a difference between thoughtful criticism and idle shit talk, and this post here explains it very well. (Little Red pointed me to this) Please read this from Iceburg Ink. No one ever clicks on...
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Wool Hipster
http://shelf-life.ew.com/2012/12/13/wool-author-hugh-howey/ It’s not often that I know about anything before it’s cool. But I knew about Wool before you did, I bet. My hubs found a small link on reddit...
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Dumb Cover Art
We’ve talked about this before, but they’re still publishing them so we gotta keep talking about it. This is the same book, a later reprint. Same book. Which one are you going to buy? Yah, me too....
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Advice: The Road Not Taken
Copyright 2013 David Belt I belong to a number of writing groups. I have participated in a number of writing workshops and panels, and the best advice I can give anyone about writing is… don’t take...
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Too Detailed or Not Detailed, That is the Question
By David Belt copyright 2013 Ever read a few pages of description only to turn back and reread those pages, because you got lost somewhere along the way and have no idea what the writer is trying to...
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Reading Emergency!
I don’t really care what it is you’re doing right now but you must drop it, whatever it is, and run out and find a copy of The Undiscovered by William Sanders. The thing is, this is probably the best...
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Bridge San Louis Rey Somethingorother
Not for me. You’ve heard of Thorton Wilder, he wrote Our Town. The Bridge of San Louis Rey is a selection of The Big Read. A rope bridge in Peru snaps and five people fall to their doom. An Italian...
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Best cover art ever Judgy Campbell award
I have no idea what this book is about, but already own a copy plus the ebook and borrowed it from the library. And I’m buying one for you, too. This is the art that sells books. Matthew Stawicki, art....
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