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    What book are you reading? Right now. Post up!

    NOTABLE! HOT! BOOKS CHAT 
    I read this one a few weeks ago. Loved the author's sense of humor, and there are so many practical things to do with this knowledge. Helped a friend get her four kids organized for church without the usual tears, just by suggesting getting them all marching around to music before she sent them...
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    Looking for writers to interview

    Yes, that's what I'm saying - that's called low-level research. They've aggregated responses, interpreted them, made them uniform for an article. I've already done that type of research. I'm looking for raw, uninterpreted words now. What people actually say, not a report of what they say or...
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    Looking for writers to interview

    Any kind of writing is relevant. I write both fiction and non-fiction, and while the process is different, productivity skills are the same. What keeps you from getting the research together so you find the writing easy? Is that four hours without a break? No wonder your energy flags. Try a...
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    Looking for writers to interview

    If you'd like to set up an interview, it sounds like your perspective would be valuable to my research. I can also help with some of that during the interview. Direct message me if you'd like the link to set an appointment for a half-hour interview/coaching session.
  5. COSenior

    Looking for writers to interview

    Hi, Lauryn! Good to hear you ARE still writing. Nice to see you, and thanks for the answer. Do you find it easy to write daily now that you have a full-time job and another business?
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    Looking for writers to interview

    Hello, Fastlaners! Do you consider yourself helpful? I joined this forum a few years back, avidly following in the footsteps of @HeldforRansom and @ChickenHawk. I've written a few books since then (27 novels, to be exact), some self-published, some as a ghostwriter, and I still follow...
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    Researching for a new project; would like to interview writers.

    Researching for a new project; would like to interview writers.
  8. COSenior

    Does the music you listen to affect your enteripenural efforts?

    OFF-TOPIC 
    There is credible scientific research that music can and will affect your predisposition toward a message. (Robert Cialdini's Pre-Suasion explains how, and how he and other researchers verified the premise). With that in mind, you can affect your own mood and likelihood of acting in a way you...
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    Money-Chasing Burns Bestselling Author...*Poof!* His pen name is gone.

    MINDSET 
    Off the top of my head, it removes the rules that Amazon places on preselling for no other reason than to control authors, but like I said, I haven't had time to take a thorough look, or even read all those comments on the thread where I first learned of it. It's low on my priority list right...
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    Is writing a book fast lane?

    HOT! 
    Absolutely true, and working on it now. I finally found someone who could coach me through that conversation - with clients and with myself - so I don't feel sleazy doing it. Not implying that it is - just that I felt that way.
  11. COSenior

    Is writing a book fast lane?

    HOT! 
    Sorry to come late to the party, but I want to point out I never did believe writing fiction was Fastlane. If I said anywhere else that I 'no longer' believe it, I misspoke. For the record, I came here to the forum with my long-time ghostwriting client after he discovered Held for Ransom's...
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    Money-Chasing Burns Bestselling Author...*Poof!* His pen name is gone.

    MINDSET 
    Sorry, I forgot to answer this. I had to find the reference. There's a Facebook group called Author Support Network where I get most of my industry news, as its an industry in which I only marginally participate these days. Someone posted about Publica.com, which apparently is a new platform. I...
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    Money-Chasing Burns Bestselling Author...*Poof!* His pen name is gone.

    MINDSET 
    Oh, they've already done that. New TOS came out sometime in the last couple of weeks. Along with limiting length, they've also made it mandatory to state if the file contains more than one book and where else the individual books are available if I remember correctly. Marie Force, a top-100...
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    Money-Chasing Burns Bestselling Author...*Poof!* His pen name is gone.

    MINDSET 
    He was a regular publisher of ghost-written content. While that's a legitimate way of becoming a best-selling 'author', it isn't cheap. My opinion is that he was always working toward the practices that eventually, and none too soon, got him banned.
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    Proofreading/Editing - Outsource? Software?

    Thanks for the shout-out!
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    Proofreading/Editing - Outsource? Software?

    Microsoft Word is truly awful at proofreading. It doesn't understand gerunds, so marks them as errors when you use them as subjects, and it frequently gets plurals wrong. Those are just my latest pet peeves.
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    Hello from Denver - self publishing success

    GOLD! 
    I'll pass on your request. I may have spoken too soon, though.
  18. COSenior

    [PROGRESS THREAD] ChickenHawk's Self-Published Fiction EBooks

    GOLD! 
    Novel approach! (No pun intended.) @ChickenHawk, what you describe is what I'm hearing from a friend of ours. I stopped writing romance after an unfortunate bout of writer's block, but I've been ghostwriting action/adventure pretty regularly since then. Both the clients I've written for report a...
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    Hello from Denver - self publishing success

    GOLD! 
    So, so true! What we all discovered is that it isn't at all passive. Not fiction, at least. The glut of cheap fiction (notice I didn't say BAD fiction, though there's plenty of that, too) on Amazon and elsewhere has created a situation where your raving fans forget you in a heartbeat if you...
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    Hello from Denver - self publishing success

    GOLD! 
    To the best of my knowledge, both are correct. I chat with him on Skype a couple of times a week, and I'll let him know he has a response here, in case he isn't keeping watch. Maybe he is. If so, he'll probably have something to say about my speaking for him, lol. I write fiction. Although I...

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