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  1. ChickenHawk

    Sometimes it's worth just keeping quiet

    HOT! 
    And Now for a Frothy Rant in Defense of the Wife... I'm going to come in on the opposite side here. My best friend shacked up with a big-talking sidewalker who took her on COUNTLESS tours of homes beyond his price-range. He did for this years. He couldn't afford those homes then, and he STILL...
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    Vigilante's "Mind Your Business" Radio Show

    EXECUTION 
    Very thought-provoking article. That'll definitely be an interesting show!
  3. ChickenHawk

    Worried Dad - Need "Fastlane" Insight

    GOLD! MINDSET 
    This is troubling on many levels. IMO, almost everyone hates their jobs and spends much of their working-hours wishing they were somewhere else. It takes a certain level of maturity to go in, do a good job, and be engaged anyway, whether or not your heart is really in it. I know many people...
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    [PROGRESS THREAD] ChickenHawk's Self-Published Fiction EBooks

    GOLD! 
    Yup, definitely! Tense romantic scenes seem to take the most time. Funny scenes don't seem to require nearly as much massaging, probably because they're not so nuanced. I'm jealous! I stink at plotting. I really need to work on that, because you're right -- it seems to go more smoothly when...
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    [PROGRESS THREAD] ChickenHawk's Self-Published Fiction EBooks

    GOLD! 
    Thanks so much! About the typos, my husband proof-reads it, but it's not enough. I need to find a better system, that's for sure!
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    [PROGRESS THREAD] ChickenHawk's Self-Published Fiction EBooks

    GOLD! 
    So I'm working on my next book, and I've realized something. It's not that I write terribly slow, so much as my internal editor is a screaming harpie who hates almost everything. Example: Earlier this week, I took several hours to write a little over 300 words -- but only because I went back...
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    Belgian young man visiting the USA

    MEETUPS 
    Alas, all of the entrepreneurs were driven out of California with torches, pitchforks, and cries for all their money. Okay, maybe a couple of entrepreneurs remain (some even here on this forum), but that area of the country isn't known for being business-friendly. This might partially explain...
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    [CONTEST] Guess How Many Likes By Mid-March

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    Employees Working In Your House?

    HOT! PEOPLE 
    Since you're renting, this seems potentially problematic. Many standard leases expressly forbid running businesses out of your home. I know many of us here DO work from home, but that seems different than converting part of an apartment into office space for additional employees. You also might...
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    Low Cost Health Care for Entrepreneurs

    PEOPLE 
    I looked at that a while back and was a little nervous at the concept. Sad, because it's a great idea. It's just that the reason I buy insurance (or at least before it was mandated) was to prevent me from going bankrupt in the event of a serious illness or accident. Under new regulations, our...
  11. ChickenHawk

    Don't Rent to This Guy!

    REAL ESTATE 
    Those people are swine. Funny how the guy's angry at the implication that he's some kind of deadbeat loser. Jeez. I'm sorry to hear you had to deal with them. We have one rental house. It's virtually across the street from us. We used to do the landlord thing ourselves. Now we have a property...
  12. ChickenHawk

    interest only

    INVESTING 
    Are you planning to hang onto the property for a while? If so, here are some things to consider. With interest-only loans, you never build equity unless the price of your property goes up. As we saw in 2008, real estate prices can indeed fall, sometimes dramatically. Do you have a plan or extra...
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    How Scalable Is Kindle Publishing?

    PUBLISHING 
    Aside from this, the reason I think Amazon may adjust their payout scale is because an ever-growing number of KU authors are publishing books that are consumed in too short of a timeframe. (Note, I'm not talking about the time it takes an author to write something, but rather the time it takes...
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    How Scalable Is Kindle Publishing?

    PUBLISHING 
    There are lots of interesting points back and forth here. (I do hope, however, we can keep the debate civil. Some of the above comments seem a bit borderline to me, but I digress...) About KU, I agree that the quality of works is iffy. Lots of dreck is being thrown up there in obvious...
  15. ChickenHawk

    New kid on the block from Michigan

    INTRO 
    Welcome to the forum! As a Michigan native myself, and, um, non-teenager, I'll be interested to see what fastlane routes you pursue. A side observation. It seems to me that a good chunk of intro posts are entitled, "Nineteen Year Old Plans to Do/Earn Such-And-Such..." I'm always impressed by...
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    Literary Agent in the Modern Sense?

    PUBLISHING 
    Yup, that was me. (Good memory!) I was approached by one agent (maybe more than one, I seem to recall several emails about it), one publisher, and a company that was interested in the audio rights. But all of this was in early 2014, when I had two books in the Amazon top 100. I've heard that...
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    Literary Agent in the Modern Sense?

    PUBLISHING 
    A dirty non-secret...it's nearly impossible to get a good literary agent to represent you. Your odds are literally like 10,000 to one. Sad, but true. And here's the great irony. If you're already a top-selling author, it's probably fairly easy to get a good agent. But if you're already selling...
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    Literary Agent in the Modern Sense?

    PUBLISHING 
    Interesting idea! One thing I wanted to point out is that a literary agent is unlikely to fill this role. Literary agents generally sign clients and sell manuscripts to publishing houses. Under this scenario, they usually take a percentage of ALL book royalties, whether or not it was generated...
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    icey502's Publishing Thread

    PUBLISHING 
    I used my pre-existing Amazon account and actually like this setup. Happily, this is completely unrelated to your pen name. When you publish your book, you will simply fill in a field of "author name" or something like that. In this field, and on your book cover, you can put whatever name you...
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    [PROGRESS THREAD] ChickenHawk's Self-Published Fiction EBooks

    GOLD! 
    I agree with @Digamma . I don't bother with filing anything with the government as far as copyright. I do, however, include a copyright notice in the books. If you browse the "look inside" feature of popular Amazon Kindle books, you'll be able to see some examples of how authors handle this...

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