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Essential Tools (& Tips) for Digital Publishing
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Essential Tools (& Tips) for Digital Publishing

Not long ago, the closest an author could achieve to creating an e-book himself or herself was converting a word processing document into a PDF and then e-mailing copies to close friends and family members. Today, though still a burgeoning industry, e-book publishing is becoming creative and fruitful in ways comparable to traditional book publishing….

The Most Important Feature of Author Platforms
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The Most Important Feature of Author Platforms

When Keith Richards steps onto stage, a specific horde pays big bucks to be part of him and hear his inimitable riffs on the guitar. When David Sedaris steps onto stage, a smaller but sizable crowd pays a fair sum to be part of him and to hear his inimitable riffs from the page. Both…

For Authors Ready for the Life-Affirming Fact
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For Authors Ready for the Life-Affirming Fact

In the Tower of Babel that is publishing these days, it’s easy for authors to get distracted and to side-track their creative process in favor of over-thinking viable creative products.  The push to publish and profit can override the hardest fact. I’m offering four spots in a program and then a free call for a select group of…

The Future of Publishing Looks…
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The Future of Publishing Looks…

I have returned from the Digital Book World Conference ever more curious about the future state of publishing. This morning, Jeremy Greenfield, Forbes columnist and one of the generous-minded founders, wrote this: Publishers are grappling with the possibility that bookstores might not exist in the future; that some authors have a very low opinion of…