Category: publishing
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Pre-Pulitzer Poetry by Robert Hillyer (Ebook)
Announcing a compilation of poetry by Pulitzer-winning poet Robert HIllyer (1895-1961)
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Personville Press links
Links to the latest content on the Personville Press website.
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HOW TO: Submit Author Photos to Wikimedia Commons (for Wikipedia)
Step-by-step tutorial about how to submit author photos to Wiki Commons
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Tips & Advice for New & Indie Authors
(Last Update Jan 3 2023). Over the last decade I have run a side business editing and marketing ebooks. From time to time I am contacted by new writers about how to publish and promote a book. I get contacted so often about this that I have starting keeping a compendium of tips. As of…
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Out-of-the-box ideas to promote literature
Some unconventional thinking about books and authors: Amazon could easily put a little check box asking whether readers purchasing second hand books wish to pay the author a royalty, which in most cases amount to small change, but make a difference in that the actual number of people who buy the book are tabulated to…
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Should we still buy dictionaries? (My quest for the elusive Zyjgyduf)
Two months ago I wrote in an article I wrote about how to build a better vocabulary, I recommended buying a good dictionary – only to realize that I no longer possessed one! I have always been a dictionary fiend, but especially become one while teaching in Eastern Europe, where a good English dictionary was…
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Should we care about Sarah Palin’s autobiography?
Literary critic Stanley Fish finds Sarah Palin’s autobiography to be authentic in its own way: Do I believe any of this? It doesn’t matter. What matters is that she does, and that her readers feel they are hearing an authentic voice. I find the voice undeniably authentic (yes, I know the book was written “with…