Put Yourself Out There

If you are a writer, you have to open yourself up to criticism. You have to “put yourself out there.” Not all critics are worth listening to. Sometimes people will tell you something is good when it isn’t, and other people will tell you something is bad when it isn’t. The most important thing to…

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Alliance to Benefit Authors

A new alliance between two award-winning companies, DocUmeant Publishing (www.documeantpublishing.com) and EMSI Public Relations, aims to make sure authors aren’t left floundering on their own once their books are published, say pioneering businesswomen Ginger Marks and Marsha Friedman. “This relationship streamlines the next step for my clients when my job as a publisher is complete,”…

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Writing Online

I often hear people saying how writing online is so drastically different from other kinds of writing. I’ll admit that online writing isn’t the same as academic writing, but despite the innovation of Twitter, the ideal article length online is around 300 to 400 words, about what you would want a newspaper article to be….

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