There is a great debate regarding the artistic process of writing and the business end. You don’t want to think about the business side when you are creating your art, but you can bet that the minute the time comes to start promoting your work, you are going to be sifting through your manuscript looking [...]

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In an interview over at 26th Story, Seth Godin talks about free content and the publishing industry. Should the publishing industry go the way of the music industry? Could it be the best move ever made? Here is what Godin had to say about it.
The market doesn’t care a whit about maintaining your industry. The [...]

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We often speak with authors about the success rate of self-published books. We have worked with a few self-published authors who have had great success. This is something that really can’t be predicted and there is no secret “ingredient”. But here is a story about two women who found that secret ingredient and may just [...]

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This weekend’s New York Times Book Review ran their list of the top 10 book of the year. Any thoughts?  Did they get it right?  What was missing?
       

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Brenda Janowitz, author of SCOT ON THE ROCKS and JACK WITH A TWIST, is hosting an amazing book giveaway over on her site! Head over there and sign yourself up. Because we all know that books make GREAT gifts!
Here are the rules from Brenda’s site:
To enter, just email brenda@brendajanowitz.com and write “Another holiday book giveaway” [...]

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Tonight Mayor Menino hosted the holiday event, ReadBoston at the Hotel Commonwealth in Kenmore Square. The event was a wonderful opportunity for authors and readers to meet, mingle and talk books while raising money for an incredibly worthwhile cause. ReadBoston’s mission is to have children in Boston reading on grade level by the time [...]

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This weekend the Lifetime movie version of Jane Porter’s novel, FLIRTING WITH FORTY premiered. I love when books are turned into movies because I find that film versions have the amazing ability to help non-readers discover books and authors. What it allowed me to do was to discover an author I had heard about, but [...]

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The Book Babes (Margo Hammond and Ellen Heltzel) are advising First Lady Laura Bush on writing her memoir. Don’t forget to check out their book, “Between the Covers: The Book Babes’ Guide to a Woman’s Reading Pleasures.”

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The library is now a thing of the past. It has officially been replaced with “Learning Commons.” This new spin on a timeless classic may motivate people to spend time in a place that both encourages and inspires learning. In today’s Boston Globe there is a piece about Chelmsford High School revamping their outdated library [...]

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Here is the story from The New York Observer.

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