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Poets & Writers on indie publishing

Happy to announce that I’m in the latest issue of Poets & Writers in  The Savvy Self-Publisher column by Debra Englander. It features the fabulous successes of Portland local William Hertling with me and Jessica Glenn of Mind Buck Media weighing in. A caveat, however, there are several typos or misquotes in my  piece. The […]

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In Case You Missed It

Gathering of writerly tidbits from the internets Did you miss BEA this year? Think inspiring writers need to attend? Think again…here’s agent Janet  Reid ‘splaining things.  Last month I attended a luncheon at the Pennwriters Writing Conference. Lucky me, it was the amazing Jane Friedman talking about using social media to sell books. She’s a […]

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Ted Hughes on the power of words

“Because it is occasionally possible, just for brief moments, to find the words that will unlock the doors of all those many mansions inside the head and express something – perhaps not much, just something – of the crush of information that presses in on us, from the way a crow flies over and the […]

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