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How to Stay Ahead of Your Writing Competition—Six Must Read Blogs

  By Maryan Pelland | March 7, 2012 - 9:14 am | writing advice
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If you’re going to write books (or write articles) and sell your writing or publish your books, you have to know your industry and stay one step ahead of the competition. Choose your weapons. Do you want to pursue traditional New York style publishers and book agents, or is self-publishing going to work better for you? Maybe your bailiwick is ebooks and digital publishing. Whatever you decide, …(there’s more) Continue reading →

Why Should Mark Coker and Smashwords Have Special Rights? Money? Power?

  By Maryan Pelland | March 6, 2012 - 5:18 pm | Business of books
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Nonsense to both. Mr. Coker is ranting around the Internet about how PayPal dissed him and his ebook publishing website, Smashwords.  By now we know PayPal told him to lose  nasty ebooks dealing in bestiality, rape, or incest or lose PayPal priveleges. A cry went up and was heard across the land. Poor Mark. Poor Smashwords. It just aint fair!!! Bloggers blogged. Ranters ranted.  Journalists …(there’s more) Continue reading →

Scrivener Software Is Complicated but Worth the Effort for Writing eBooks

  By Maryan Pelland | March 1, 2012 - 7:33 pm | write your book, writing advice
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Two weeks ago friend and fellow ghostwriter, Grant McDuling, suggested I look into an extremely robust wordprocessor for fiction and non-fiction writers. Always up for a book writing related adventure I jumped in and found Scrivener authoring software immensely worth my time. There is a learning curve involved with Scrivener, but an hour or two will have you writing and formatting all kinds of manuscripts …(there’s more) Continue reading →

Easy steps to publish your ebook for Kindle readers

  By Maryan Pelland | February 21, 2012 - 11:26 am | write your book, writing advice
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Don’t panic. You wrote your ebook, had the ebook professionally edited, polished the ebook to a gloss and you feel ready to publish that ebook to Kindle’s self publishing site for Kindle readers and Amazon customers. Don’t panic. There’s a learning curve to self-publishing electronically via Amazon’s Kindle, but Kindle has the largest market share of ebook sales. If you can only publish one format …(there’s more) Continue reading →

How to Learn from the Best Writing Advice Ever

  By Maryan Pelland | February 19, 2012 - 3:30 pm | writing advice
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  I’d like to share one of the most valuable pieces of writing advice I ever got. It helped me sell more writing and get more readers. Then, I’d like you to tell me, in the comments, what advice really moved your writing, authoring, or freelance career along. Into My Writing Wayback Machine In college, I had a fantastic writing professor, Jack Dodd. After reading …(there’s more) Continue reading →