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Self-publishing and emerging writers: some extra thoughts

Memories of old / Memorias de antaño

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I’ve had some

time to mull over the response that the post previous to this one received, including some comments that I thought raised new points, so I thought I’d add a couple of additional ideas that …

Self-publishing and some advice for emerging writers

The slushpile, Tor, the Flatiron Building, New York City, New York, USA.JPG
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I’ve been seeing

a lot of conversation going on lately about self-publishing and how it relates to emerging writers. This is a topic that I’m quite interested in, having both considered the possibility of self-publishing and applied …

Meat and greet

Greet the Dawn
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Last night, I

did two things that I’m proud of. One was to get up in front of a whole bunch of people for the February Cottonmouth meeting at the 459 Bar and read out my short/flash …

Insecurity

Broken Keyhole
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Two articles were

recently brought to my attention via the Twitterz: Amber Sparks’ ‘The Influence of Anxiety‘, and Kirsty Logan’s response at the Pank Blog, ‘This Modern Writer: Youth Is All’. You should all …

Playing with e-publishing

Bill VII
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There’s been heaps

of commentary regarding the print versus electronic publishing industries (are they even separate industries?) throughout this year, and most recently at the Meanland, Wheeler Centre et al. blogs. A great deal of the …