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Bestsellers and Book Sales Expectations

Most new authors have no idea how book sales happen or what numbers to expect. A typical successful book from a major publisher sells between 20,000 and 40,000 copies. Healthy book sales from a smaller publisher may number at least 5,000 copies, wher...

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Internet Authors Don't Need Cut-Offs

When our children were younger, and still at High School, we moved house. The new place was further away from the school, and they told us that there might be financial help available for us towards the cost of our kids' new bus fares, which wou...

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The Art of Persuasive Business Writing

All good writing involves persuasion-getting the reader over to your side. You may be writing to persuade a colleague to take on a new project, writing a blog post trying to persuade people to accept a new idea, or writing persuasive advertising copy...

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The World's Greatest Cover Letter Secret Revealed

There are a few ways to write a winning cover letter but there is only one way to put yours in the top one percent of all cover letters ever written. What I'm about to share with you now will put yours in that elite group. Expert marketers have...

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Books for Writers: "The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers," by Betsy Lerner

In her lengthy career, Betsy Lerner has been an MFA student, an award-winning poet, a book editor at major publishing houses, and a literary agent. So in her wonderfully insightful book about writers and the business in which they struggle, she provi...

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Writing Is a Process

As I work with people at different stages of the writing process, I find that they're often surprised that there IS a writing process. Most often, we imagine how a "real" writer works. He sits down at his lovely, mahogany desk and gets out his p...

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Do You Do Voices

Do You "Do" Voices?Copyright 2003, The Write ExposureWhen you write an article, is it all about you? Your thoughts, your insights, your opinions, your voice? Or do you include other people's voices in the form of interviews and research? If your...

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Things You Might Like to Know about Copyrights

You may be under the false impression that before you can get your text published, you must "get the copyright" to your ownwritten material. You might also think that in order to get the copyright, you must "apply" for it. This is just not so. In the...

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Somebody's Distributing Your Copyright Content Illegally Know Your Facts Before You Accuse

Is someone distributing your software or other copyrightcontent illegally over the Internet? It's possible. Ithappens. If you can prove your case, you have groundsfor legal action.BUT before making yourself look foolish and creatingenemies, hav...

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In Spellchecker We Trust... Right?

In Spellchecker We Trust... Right? by: Jan Kovarik This article could have easily been titled "We Don't Need a Proofreader...right?" Businesses today are transforming printed text into computer-based documents and, well, all you have to do ...

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