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Pump Up Your Book Announces eXtasy Books & Devine Destinies Gigantic Blog Tour

4355 readers Join eXtasy Books and Devine Destinies as they tour the blogosphere June 1 ? August 31 2012 on their first virtual publisher tour with Pump Up Your Book!? eXtasy Books and Devine Destinies have agreed to give away not only a Kindle Fire but also a $50 Gift Certificate to the person who

Writing From Home ? Warnings & Tips on How to Survive When You Have No Office

3192 readersI?m a work-at-home father of two and a full-time writer. I write for blogs like this one, I write books, and I write whatever print freelance assignments come along in between. I?m not here to tell you what an unbelievable challenge working at home can be. If you?re reading this blog, I?m sure you already

The 5 Types of Blogs | Which One Suits You Best?

1244 readersAre you new to blogging? Have you found your niche?? Are you having problems with your content?? Does it take a lot of time to come up with a good article? These are some questions that might be plaguing writers, especially those who have just started with their blogs. It is so much easier

Finding the Time to Write

4758 readersSo how do writers do it? How do we find time to write what we want and still have a normal life? (Whatever that means..) I, for one, have found it rather difficult of late. Between editing and my freelance work plus being a single mom, it?s hard to fit in any writing I actually

Book Marketing Momentum

219 readersThe beginning of any book marketing campaign is the start of a marathon, not a race. What every book needs at the start is momentum. The most difficult part is getting started and continuing your plan over a long period of time. The single most important factor is consistency. If you can only find time

Random House To Publish Nickelodeon Books

4794 readersSpongeBob SquarePants,?Dora the Explorer,?Team Umizoomi, and?Bubble Guppies are all headed to Random House Children?s Books next year. Random House revealed today that they will be the primary book publisher of Nickelodeon properties beginning in the spring of 2013. EIC of licensed publishing Chris Angelilli will oversee the titles. Here?s more from the release: ?The publishing program

Calvin Trillin

3129 readers"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."

10 Ways To Overcome Blogging Procrastination

1256 readersAbout six weeks ago, I knew it was time for me to write another article for this blog. I started getting some ideas down on paper and brainstorming like I always do. A week passed. Richard asked me what the status of my article was. I told him I was busy writing my

7 Ways to Stop Feeling Distracted and Start Writing What You Want to Write

2822 readersA short post about ways to cut out distractions quickly grew into a much bigger series on focus and flow, and some deeper thoughts (for me anyway) about why we let ourselves, individually and collectively, be so distracted. At the same time as writing more I wanted to write less: to try and boil down

An Education

1276 readersI'm reading An Education (Lynn Barber's memoir), and am really enjoying it. Last night I came across this line and smiled.'I felt, as Julie Burchill memorably remarked, that when I discovered writing it was as if I'd been speaking a second language up till then and had finally found my mother tongue.'I love when I

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