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Don’t Waste Your Career

Dean Wesley Smith has another great blog post up explaining the shifts in the role of agents over the past 100 years in the publishing industry. Go read it. It’s good. It made me wonder how I ever managed to … Continue reading

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Publishing 3.0 – That Writer Friend

I never thought it would happen to me, but it did. One of my friends is also an aspiring writer, and she’s bought into all of the myths. You know, those sacred cows of publishing that will be the ruination … Continue reading

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Publishing 3.0 – Anti-Authoritarian, That’s Me! Or Don’t Be a Sheeple

First, check this great series of posts by some of the best bloggers on publishing in the business if you want to catch up on the latest laments of the publishing industry Swimming Lessons for House Slaves:  No one will … Continue reading

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Publishing 3.0 – An Added-In Cost of Legacy Publishing – Time

Amanda Hocking’s Trylle trilogy will be re-released by St. Martin’s Press! Hocking just announced this via a publisher’s blurb on her blog: Self-publishing phenomenon Amanda Hocking’s USA Today bestselling TRYLLE trilogy, three young adult paranormal novels that the author previously … Continue reading

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The Tipping Point in Publishing

Lots of journalists like to pinpoint an individual event as the catalyst for the dawn of an epoch. I choose to believe that in most cases, we can’t single out one event without excluding another (or perhaps several others) that … Continue reading

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