Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office, CA
Last month I blogged about broken things. I cited things like self-published e-books and self-publishing. Today I’m going to take a different tack and look at the new …
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Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office, CA
Last month I blogged about broken things. I cited things like self-published e-books and self-publishing. Today I’m going to take a different tack and look at the new …
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Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office, CA
During the last century, in order to be published, an author would have to type his manuscript with a carbon copy, or in the pre-carbon copy days re-type his …
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Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office, CA
I don’t know about you but I’m sick of hearing bad news. Yes, the publishing industry is changing but it’s an exciting time to be a writer. This week …
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Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: New Hope, Pennsylvania
I touched on self-publishing yesterday when I talked about self-pubbed e-books but many people are still paying hundreds (thousands?) of dollars to self-publish traditional books. Let me be clear up front. There are …
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Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Old New Castle, Delaware
E-books seem to have reached the tipping point. It’s all anyone’s been talking about lately. If you read our blog you know that I was a Kindle early-adopter. I’m crazy about my
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Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: New York City
I don’t think it’s news to anyone that the brick and mortar bookstore is in trouble. We’ve seen the writing on the wall for several years as we identified the parallels between the
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Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Old New Castle, Delaware
No one doubts that the publishing world is experiencing a major sea change. Some have even compared it to the changes that took place during the industrial revolution. A blog post isn’t
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Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Old New Castle, Delaware
Broken things drive me crazy. Just call me the Fix-it Fairy. If something is broken–be it an object, a person, or a system–I have trouble accepting the state of brokenness. I want
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Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office, CA
So what’s the fifth thing your agent does not want to hear? “I’m taking a writing break. It’s time for a sabbatical.”
Can you hear the agent groans from …
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Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office, CA
So, since we keep talking about things your agent prefers not to hear, here’s yet another one: “I just wrote a proposal for a whole new idea and I’m …
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