Your friend is a writer. You love your friend and you want to support their interests, but you don’t know what their specific plans are. After all, a gift subscription to Writer’s Market only works if they are planning to look for an agent and maybe your friend wants to self-publish. In the same vein, [...]
Sometimes you know you need to write up a blog post but you just don’t have anything on your mind. Here are a few quick ideas to get your creative juices on the direction of a topic for your next post.
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26May09
I would’ve prefered my book hadn’t been selected for listing on Amazon.com’s Marketplace, Lulu
In the musical The Producers, there is a very funny part when a choir of obnoxious sounding old ladies start to sing over-the-top back up to what Nathan Lane is singing and he turns to them in despair and pleas as only Nathan Lane can, “Don’t help me.”
That is exactly how I felt when [...]
10Mar09
Publishing on Amazon’s Kindle: Author Gregory Bernard Banks shares his insights & experience
As regular readers of The Whine Seller know, I like to write from personal experience. So, with publishing on Amazon’s Kindle getting a lot of attention lately, I realized I wasn’t going to be able to give this topic the attention it deserved since I have not yet published anything on the platform. Instead, I [...]
