Category: writing
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A Double-Butted Adventure
A tandem bicycle trip across the United States sounds like a cute travel fantasy until you put it on a calendar, start training, and realize the road does not care about your mood. Teri M. Brown proves that point by riding from Astoria, Oregon to Washington, D.C. in the summer of 2020, when travel restrictions…
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Confessions of an Exploited Amazon Author
Let me tell you something about the publishing business that nobody tells you before you get into it: Amazon is not, in fact, running a charity on your behalf. I know, I know. Shocking stuff. But here’s the actual math, because I did it so you don’t have to. Say I sell a paperback for…
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The Scavengers of the Publishing World
As Dennis Miller used to say, “Now I don’t want to go off on a rant here..” – but here I go. A few years ago I wrote a blog post called “Do The Write Thing“, in which I moaned about the difficulties and costs of self-publishing, and how the only people who make any…
