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    It's All About the Money: The Shrinking Horror Niche

    MAY 17, 2012 2:40PM

    By KC Redding-Gonzalez


    Topics: horror fiction, novice writers, older writers, print publishing, online publishing, e-books, publishing

    • Editor's Pick
    • 12 Ratings
    • 659 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    Are We Ever Too Old to Be Called “Promising?”

    MAY 7, 2012 3:57PM

    By Holly Robinson


    Topics: publishing, harpercollins, ecco, billy lynn's long halftime walk, brief encounters with che guevara, steven tyler, american idol, fiction, innovations, novels, inventors, technology review, poets and writers, success, writing, ben fountain

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    • 18 Ratings
    • 1204 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    Why Writers Need Readers: Not for the Obvious Reason

    FEBRUARY 8, 2012 9:16AM

    By Holly Robinson


    Topics: book clubs, book bloggers, readers, writing, novels, breast cancer, gerbil farmer's daughter, book reviews, bookstores, publishing, self publishing, facebook, sleeping tigers, social media, novel publicity

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    • 11 Ratings
    • 2433 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    How I STOPPED living on the edge

    FEBRUARY 1, 2012 5:27AM

    By ManhattanWhiteGirl


    Topics: blogs, cary tennis, travel, teaching, jet, teaching fellows, nyc, life stories, publishing, writers and writing

    • Editor's Pick
    • 8 Ratings
    • 2014 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    Online Piracy’s Cure is Worse Than the Curse

    JANUARY 18, 2012 11:45AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: politics, economics, sopa protest, legislation, sopa, stop online piracy act, protect ip act, pipa, wikipedia protest, web shutdown, online piracy, music industry, film industry, publishing, electronic freedom, censorship, homeland security, congress, illegal downloading, content providers, creatives, protecting creative jobs, intellectual property

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    • 6 Ratings
    • 764 Views
    • 29 Comments
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    From Jingles to Journalism

    NOVEMBER 12, 2011 5:10PM

    By Lorraine Duffy Merkl


    Topics: occupy wall street, getting published, lindsay lohan, publishing, advertising, open call, my brilliant second career

    • Editor's Pick
    • 8 Ratings
    • 1871 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Will the Real Professor X Please Stand Up?

    APRIL 6, 2011 8:05AM

    By Kate Geiselman


    Topics: grade inflation, composition, writing, publishing, anonymity, community college, teaching, higher education

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 2208 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    Our Muses, Ourselves: Why Women Like Me Run Away

    FEBRUARY 9, 2011 8:08PM

    By Holly Robinson


    Topics: publishing, art, canada, prince edward island, muses, creativity, malcolm gladwell, grace paley, canada, virginia woolf, gift from the sea, anne morrow lindbergh, the gerbil farmer's daughter, take one candle light a room, susan straight, women in the arts, writing

    • Editor's Pick
    • 24 Ratings
    • 1714 Views
    • 34 Comments
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    You Can't Take the NWORD out of the Huckleberry

    JANUARY 5, 2011 1:15AM

    By William Hazelgrove


    Topics: huckleberry finn, nword, twain scholar, censorship, books, writers, writing, novelist, novels, scribes, publishing, books

    • Editor's Pick
    • 16 Ratings
    • 1008 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    On a World Without Borders

    JANUARY 4, 2011 7:41AM

    By RARobertsJr.


    Topics: borders books, publishing, book sales

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 4635 Views
    • 61 Comments
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    Straight Pride at my son's High School

    NOVEMBER 15, 2010 10:12AM

    By William Hazelgrove


    Topics: gay/lesbian, publishers, novels, novelist, writers, books, literary, publishing, writing, free speech, high school, gay, straight pride

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 3648 Views
    • 32 Comments
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    A Big, Fat "F" for Publishing

    OCTOBER 20, 2010 1:17PM

    By Heather Michon


    Topics: publishing, our virginia: past and present, joy masoff, sons of confederate veterans, black confederates

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 1275 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    The Book Tour: Is It Worth It?

    OCTOBER 14, 2010 11:38AM

    By Holly Robinson


    Topics: marketing, writers, authors, gerbils, the gerbil farmer's daughter, publicity, publishing, writing, book tours, red rock books, china lake, coronado, ridgecrest, navy wives, navy exchanges, navy bases

    • Editor's Pick
    • 32 Ratings
    • 2300 Views
    • 64 Comments
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    Twenty Lessons New Authors Learn

    OCTOBER 6, 2010 5:02PM

    By Caitlin Kelly


    Topics: travel, sports, science, photography, poetry, business, book publishers, publishing, agents, authors, writers, writing, books

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 1212 Views
    • 67 Comments
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    Falling off the Freedom Train

    OCTOBER 1, 2010 11:22AM

    By William Hazelgrove


    Topics: novelist, novels, reviews, publishing, literature, literary, books, writing, writers, freedom

    • Editor's Pick
    • 33 Ratings
    • 2621 Views
    • 64 Comments
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    Freedom For Readers: What's Your Device Of Choice?

    SEPTEMBER 7, 2010 8:18AM

    By Ken Honeywell


    Topics: freedom, salon book club, jonathan franzen, writers, writing, reading, publishing, kindle, ipad, old-timey books

    • Editor's Pick
    • 20 Ratings
    • 6543 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    An Interview with James Dean Biographer Val Holley

    MAY 31, 2010 11:01PM

    By Kathy Riordan


    Topics: news, books, publishing, author, writing, biography, lgbt, 25th street confidential, ogden utah, mike connolly and the manly art of hollywood gossip, mike connolly, gay hollywood, r.i.p. dennis hopper, marilyn monroe 84th birthday, actors studio, giant, rebel without a cause, east of eden, james dean sexuality, james dean: the biography, james dean, val holley

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 10649 Views
    • 70 Comments
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    "Would You Believe Me Anyway?" James Frey's Second Act

    FEBRUARY 26, 2010 9:51AM

    By Heather Michon


    Topics: james frey, publishing, psuedonym, pittacus lore, fiction, memoir, oprah winfrey, a million little pieces, john twelve hawks

    • Editor's Pick
    • 34 Ratings
    • 1765 Views
    • 51 Comments
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    The Book Blurb: Guilt by Association

    FEBRUARY 3, 2010 9:27AM

    By reluctant muse


    Topics: blurb, books, critics, publishing, writing

    • Editor's Pick
    • 22 Ratings
    • 1351 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    Roundup: Contests, Spring Previews, a Secret Online Bookshop

    JANUARY 26, 2010 11:02PM

    By The Biblio Files


    Topics: books, publishing, bookstores, contests

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