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Carolyn Hayes Uber
http://www.carolynhayesuber.com
News, advice, and resources for authors.
- Added on: Feb 21st, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Carolyn Uber
- Listed in: Writing Independent Publishing
- Tags: books Marketing writing publishing authors editing
Recent Posts
It’s Foreword, NOT Forward
Spell it right! The number of manuscripts I’ve seen — and even printed books — with this common misspelling is staggering. Sometimes they’re long. Sometimes they’re short. But they’re always written by someone other than the author — pr...
The Non-Case of the Stolen Manuscript
“How do I protect my work?” is a question that comes up at every conference and the writers groups where I speak. Having one’s manuscript stolen seems to be a huge concern among new writers. Many would-be authors, upon having an editor or age...
Writing What You Know
What happens when a parent’s perfectly normal day turns into every parent’s worst nightmare? For the Smith family, life was good. John, most known to R-J readers as Nevada’s best-read newspaper columnist, and wife Tricia, were the parents of a...
Vu Tran, RESTLESS CITY Author, Wins 2009 Whiting Award
Vu Tran, the seventh author in our Restless City serial novel, has won a 2009 Whiting Award. With the literary prestige comes a check for a cool $50,000. The Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation named ten recipients of the 2009 Whiting Writers’ Awards. Th...
That Great Sucking Sound Inspires Poet
Where do you find your best inspiration? That in-the-groove place where the ideas just flow and you’re on the creative high ground? Our Stephens Press book designer Sue Campbell may have the cleanest floors in the state of Colorado — as doing the...
Serial Novel Published in the Restless City
Writing is a solitary endeavor, and save for some tweaking by an editor, the storyline and characters are the author’s own. The author is in charge of what happens when, what each character does, says, and even looks like. So how did seven ...
