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LoveReading Site
Straight from Hel | May 16th 2008 by Helen Ginger
Since I introduced LoveReading yesterday, I thought I’d highlight their website today.The site is so new (still in Beta Testing) that I can’t recommend it yet, but it’s worth looking into, so I’m linking to it in case you had any trouble find read more
Book Promotion Site
Straight from Hel | May 15th 2008 by Helen Ginger
The UK is trying a new approach to promoting books by print-on-demand authors. Like the US, the UK is experiencing a surge in POD books, and they recognize the problems authors can have getting their books in brick-and-mortar stores.The online book r read more
Amazon in the News Again
Straight from Hel | May 12th 2008 by Helen Ginger
Amazon has been making news for months now. Some good; some not so good. Remember Amazon’s ebook reader, the Kindle? Its sales seem to be still going well. You’re hopefully aware of their push to have all publishers who use print-on-demand techno read more
Last Laugh Goes to Self-Published Humorist
The Voice of Your Muse | May 12th 2008 by Mark David Gerson
The self-published winner of Canada's most prestigious literary humor award now has a publisher. (See "Self-Published Author Wins Prestigious National Award," May 1.)Douglas Gibson Books, an imprint of McClelland & Stewart, beat out the two other Can read more
New Trends in Publishing Give Writers More Choices Than Ever
Midlist Writer | May 9th 2008 by Sean McLachlan
As I outlined in the previous post, the publishing industry is going through a lot of changes. Emerging writers now have more choices than ever. In larger houses, the midlist is shrinking, but there are still contracts to be had. With the advent of P read more
Interested in Being Paid to Review Books?
R.W Ridley | May 9th 2008 by R.W. Ridley
Publishers Weekly is looking for a few good reviewers. This is a great opportunity with one of the leading Publishing magazine in the industry. Here’s the ad: Publication or Company Publishers Weekly Industry Magazine Publishi read more
Sai do computador NERD!!!
Blog do Carlos Fran | May 7th 2008 by Carlos Fran
Recebi segunda os brindes oferecidos pela Garota Sem Fio (Bia Kunze) a quase integrante do podcast Código Livre comandado pela Ricardo Macari e Adriana Saito. Fui o sortudo que acompanhava a edição 67 do podcast pelo UsTream. No kit veio: Ediçã read more
Is The Publishing Industry In Trouble? Nope.
Midlist Writer | May 7th 2008 by Sean McLachlan
There's a common belief on writing newgroups that the traditional print industry is in freefall, soon to be tossed into the scrapheap of history and replaced by ebooks or no books at all. This is, not surprisingly, the stance taken by many ebook auth read more
Nine Little Precious Pods
BarbadosInFocus | May 6th 2008 by BarbadosInFocus
Nine Little Precious Pods, originally uploaded by pictureinfocus.BDOS072607_0050Nine Little Precious PodsJopya DriveFrere Pilgrim, Christ ChurchBarbados, West IndiesSeries: Just Around the House(07-26-2007)View the entire set.View as slideshow.View o read more
Techno is Not a Joke
noizZze | May 4th 2008
Here are the amazing “Techno Is Not A Joke” series on YouTube from The Pod: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. I share their views to some extent. Techno is a universal music that you can use to express yourself, make people dance or make them t read more
Broad Bean flowers and over-wintering Pea pods
Today I Will Mostly Be Growing | May 3rd 2008 by Tracey
These Broad Bean (the sutton) flowers are so stunningly different with black eye’s on white petals. If you have never grown them before, like myself, there is nothing quite like these unique flowers. They certainly brighten up my all green plot read more
Preaching in the Desert
John Baker's Blog | May 2nd 2008 by John Baker
The New York Times Sunday Book Review has an interesting piece on the book trade: In 2007, a whopping 400,000 books were published or distributed in the United States, up from 300,000 in 2006, according to the industry tracker Bowker, which attribute read more
A fost lovit de masina de pompieri in timp ce incerca sa se sinuc…
La Caterinca | May 2nd 2008 by PartzPartzescu
A fost lovit de masina de pompieri in timp ce incerca sa se sinucida. Dupa ce politia la facut pe om sa nu se mai arunce de pe pod sa se omoare, acesta trebuia sa se lase usor in jos de pe podul care era destul de inalt, in momentul in care si-a dat read more
Self-Published Author Wins Prestigious National Award
The Voice of Your Muse | May 1st 2008 by Mark David Gerson
According to this morning's Globe and Mail newspaper out of Toronto, a debut novel self-published by its author after he couldn't attract an agent or publisher, has won Canada's most prestigious award for literary humor: the CAN$10,000 Stephen Leacoc read more
Self-Publishers
Norma's Journal: Harmonious Envrionment | April 30th 2008 by Norma Lehmeier Hartie
I'm guest blogger on Weirding Word this week. Here is the beginning of a post written yesterday.When I published my first book, Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify & Energize Your Life, Your Home & Your Planet, I dreamt that The New Yo read more
Porque deixarei de blogar?
Blog do Carlos Fran | April 28th 2008 by Carlos Fran
Depois de muito tempo, chega uma hora que temos que aposentar. Foi o que Romário fez, e o que não pretendo fazer com relação ao blog. Pelo menos por enquanto! O Klaudin Garcia que mantém um monte de blogs - CGBrasil, EuQueru!, Chipado.com e o read more
Al Gore presenta Sky Current Tv
Molto rumore per nulla | April 28th 2008 by Trippi
Di Trippi La tv fatta da chi guarda, ecco di cosa parlerà Al Gore in Cattolica, a Milano, il prossimo 9 maggio durante la tavola rotonda (con Aldo Grasso e Parsi,)”La Tv capovolta. Current: il nuovo corso dell’informazione”. Al read more
What to Look for in a Subsidy POD Contract
On Creative Writing and Publishing | April 28th 2008
Consider the following when looking over a contract with a subsidy publisher:Royalties. This is the percentage that an author is paid after a book is sold. Royalties can be based on the gross sale (cover price) or the net sale (after trade discount, read more
The Line6 POD XT Live: Awesome Piece of Equipment
Soundetta.com: Your Music Arena! | April 26th 2008 by Soundmaster
The Line6 POD XT Live is an awesome piece of equipment for the semi-professional. It is sometimes seen as unnecessary because other less bulky Line6 machines have a lot of similarities but quite honestly, this baby can save your show. If you’re read more
Virtual Books Tours: One Author's Experience
Midlist Writer | April 25th 2008 by Sean McLachlan
I've been getting interested in virtual book tours as a promotional tool. More and more authors are doing them nowadays and I'll be hosting my first this June both here and on Grizzled Old Traveler. Science fiction author and fellow Canadian Christop read more
WINNER!
Envyla.net | April 18th 2008 by Envyla
We have a winner! [Alyson] from 3 P’s in a Pod has won the 20$ gift certificate from [Bumblebee Baby Creations]! The winner has been contacted. Thanks to everyone who has played this week! read more
Print-on-demand pubs and their silly demands
No rules. Just write | April 18th 2008
By now most everyone who's interested in the publishing world has heard about the furor over Amazon's announcement that they will stop carrying book titles from print-on-demand publishers other than their own BookSurge division. Yes, the news was a s read more
Get 15% off eco-friendly products at Spreadshirt for Earth Day
Hide Your Arms | April 17th 2008
I wouldn’t usually post a coupon from Spreadshirt since they seem to have a new one coming out every couple of days for various promotions, but I was a bit keen to keep up this run of posting coupons that give you 15% off, so here it is! Here&# read more
Interviewing Epublishers
Midlist Writer | April 16th 2008 by Sean McLachlan
I'm researching a couple of articles for Writing World on ebook and POD publishing industry from the publishers' point of view. I'm concentrating on the ebook article right now, since that one will be first, and have interviewed editors from half a d read more
Haunani’s spring pod
polymerclaydaily.com | April 15th 2008 by cynthia
One of my favorite polymer clay pieces for spring is this pod/sprout from Lindly Haunani. It’s quintessentially spring with natural colors and shape. The texture comes from sand mixed into the clay. You can read about Lindly’s inclusions read more
Back To The Trenches
The Houseparent Network Blog | April 14th 2008
Crank up the volume and play it loud and proud, the kids will think your cool for jamming to P.O.D. Show ‘em how a HP can rock out. I’m actually thinking of doing a devotional with the kids on this video if I can figure out how to play it read more
Sleep Pods for Call Centre Agents
Sleepzine | April 11th 2008 by Max Lee
Call center agents are not your normal employees who get to sleep the standard hours of the night. On the contrary, they work when most of the world is asleep since they have to be on alert on 24 hour shifts to provide the necessary services rendered read more
My Drug Stash Ready for Ingestion
Because the Medium is the Message | April 10th 2008 by Chris Abraham
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } My Drug Stash Ready for Taking, originally uploaded by Chris Abraham. read more
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