Tag: writing
member name: Rhetta A.
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March 19, 2009 07:27 PM EDT --
I just got word from the acquisitions editor I've been working with atThe History Press:
Congratulations!
"Congratulations! I pitched your book to the Board here at the History Press, . . .
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June 19, 2009 03:20 PM EDT --
I got my first royalty check from Amazon yesterday for T'ain't Nobody's Busness If I Do! It was only $30, but it was the first one! Woohoo!
I've been pretty steadily selling exactly one book a month . . .
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October 05, 2009 05:33 PM EDT --
OK, I never expected so much interest in my Haunted Marietta book! I'm thrilled, but a little overwhelmed!
Today, I was checking my email while I was talking to my daughter on the phone. Her friend . . .
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May 27, 2008 08:57 PM EDT --
As some of you know, I am the editor-in-training for a new journal, the Paranexus Journal of Paranormal Research. At this point, the journal is available by subscription as an online magazine only, . . .
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March 19, 2008 10:53 AM EDT --
I was only able to attend a few panels at Omega Con, but I felt as though I got a college education in marketing from those panels and from talking to the extremely helpful owner of Marietta Publishing . . .
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March 31, 2008 12:02 PM EDT --
I need professional cover art for two books. Have any of you got experience in this area? I want these covers to look great!
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May 25, 2008 03:11 PM EDT --
In my constant quest to find places to write and make even a little money, I saw a mention of this site and joined it. It certainly is easy and it posts on the front page what they are paying. All you . . .
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March 03, 2009 05:35 PM EST --
I decided just to make one master list of eveything I work on, mainly for myself, but who knows, some of it might interest somebody on here. I am feeling a bit discouraged and as though I'm not accomplishing . . .
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March 26, 2009 10:02 AM EDT --
I just signed and mailed my first ever publishing contracts to The History Press!
Thanks to the seminars I attended last year at OmegaCon and the Writer's Conference, I was able to determine that . . .
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February 17, 2008 12:50 PM EST --
I just was introduced to this new place to make money writing on the Internet, and it seems extremely easy. All they want you to do is summarize any book, article, or essay and post you summary to the . . .
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March 10, 2008 10:47 AM EDT --
I want an agent and a publisher, in whatever order it takes. I have come to understand the value of having someone else help publicize my work, and I'm tired of bookstores refusing to let me do book . . .
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March 19, 2008 10:22 AM EDT --
I sent my manuscript to The Writer's Literary Agency in my quest for an agent. Now, after attending Omega Con and listening to authors and publishers, I have definitely been leaning toward small . . .
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April 03, 2008 01:20 PM EDT --
As I venture out into the wide world of writing on forums for money and writing articles for money and book promotion, coming to Gather feels so safe, so warm, so welcoming. Yes, I want the points, but . . .
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June 20, 2008 03:43 PM EDT --
"The most solid advice. . for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat and when you sleep, really sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, . . .
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June 23, 2009 05:40 PM EDT --
I thought it would be at least Friday before I finished my manuscript for Haunted Marietta, but I got into a groove this morning, wrote for 3 1/2 hours straight, and finished it! Now all I have to do . . .
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March 19, 2008 11:08 AM EDT --
Since even the big publishers were emphasizing that authors really need to do their own publicity unless they are Stephen King, David Drake, or Laurel K. Hamilton or a writer of that ilk, and of course, . . .
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April 02, 2008 11:56 AM EDT --
Here is the continuation of the list of links to sites where you can publish your articles for free. I am still working my way through the list, using "What is a Ghost?" as my first article . . .
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April 02, 2008 02:44 PM EDT --
All of you who suggested cover artists for my book cover, thank you! But I have my artist now; the friend I hoped would do it said he would be happy to help! I am thrilled, because i love his work! "T'ain't . . .
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May 05, 2008 08:57 AM EDT --
This is not a concept that originated with me, but I think it's very true. The one attribute a writer needs mostto make a career of writing is persistance.
And that sounds so much easier than it . . .
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August 15, 2007 11:52 AM EDT --
Ok, I admit it.
Even thought I bought the ISBN and the distribution deal with Lulu and I knew my book, Ghost to Coast, was supposed to become available on Amazon.com by the end of this month, when I just . . .
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