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The Writer
Can self-publishing really become a lucrative full-time endeavor? Can indie authors ever begin to rival the income of traditionally published authors? A “yes” to either of these questions seemed but fable a few years ago. But today, a six-figure income — or at least a full-time writing career — is actually a possibility for independent authors.
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Poynter.
Producing an effective audio narrative starts with extensive planning well before picking up a mic.
When you’re considering audio treatment for a story, make a list of all possible sound sources at the primary physical location. Public events, for instance, are usually a great opportunity to get sound: There are plenty of voices and there might be music, speeches, cheering and other crowd noises. These important sound elements would help set the scene.
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Mediabistro
So you’ve just finished a piece of writing. You have checked the spelling and grammar, corrected the typos and removed any extra spaces. But you still have one more element to keep in mind: consistency. While not mistakes in and of themselves, inconsistencies in your copy can look messy and feel jarring to your readers, distracting them from your sparkling prose.
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Reuters
Reuters News Agency is now offering publishers a fast new way to reach an increasingly mobile audience who don’t want to or can’t listen to audio when they’re on the go.
Captioned videos in English and Spanish cover the top news and human interest stories around the world, allowing publishers to offer a visually compelling, personal user experience that doesn’t require audio.
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Poynter.
Somewhere in a deep corner of my files, there is a single piece of paper with just a few words on it that changed my life as a writer and teacher.
It was presented in 1982 to a seminar of writers gathered around a table in a decrepit bank building that served as the original home of what was to become the Poynter Institute. Donald Murray, a professor at the University of New Hampshire, argued that good writing sometimes felt like magic to the reader, especially if the reader was also a writer. But magical thinking was not healthy for writers. Better to think of good writing as a craft, a set of tasks and habits, a number of steps, a process.
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Female First
Gill Paul is a published writer with novels like "The Secret Wife."
Here Paul provides the top 10 tips for writing historical fiction.
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Writer's Digest
Domestic noir is a growing genre. Given successes such as Paula Hawkin’s "Girl on a Train" and Gillian Flynn’s "Gone Girl," it appears that regular domestic situations are a fertile breeding ground for suspense thrillers. Everyday dramas play out around the kitchen tables and the bedrooms of family homes. In fact, generally speaking, the more life is presented as "perfect" to the outside world, the more we find very strange goings-on behind closed doors.
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The Rumpus
In 2013, Will Evans started the publishing house Deep Vellum, a wordplay on the Dallas neighborhood where it’s headquartered: Deep Ellum. The nonprofit organization only publishes translated works. In its first year, it published award-winning international authors, including Anne Garréta, Sergio Pitol, Carmen Boullosa, Jón Gnarr and Mikhail Shishkin. Its catalog now includes more than 30 books. Deep Vellum is also in the process of opening up a bookstore.
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Digital Journal
Those who are seeking out self-published book marketing services are encouraged to pursue a company with a proven track record as soon as possible. In order to help grant access to further media opportunities, it is important to rely on a publicity agency that regularly succeeds in routine placements of self-published authors and/or their books on top national TV and radio shows. With the self-publishing revolution continuing to grow across the board, the need for book marketing, book publicity, book promotion, author promotion and writer marketing to spark book sales has increased, says Smith Publicity.
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AWP
Sisters in Crime, an organization that supports female crime writers, released a report on diversity in the mystery community, which revealed that 93 percent of its membership is white. Out of its 1,100 surveyed members, only 3 percent identify as African-American, 1.5 percent as Native-American, 1.5 percent as Asian, and 1 percent as Hispanic or Latino.
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Kickstarter — a crowdfunding service that allows individuals to raise money for various projects — has passed a milestone of receiving over $100 million in pledges to its general-publishing projects since the company’s founding in 2009, Publishers Weekly reports. General publishing includes the genres of nonfiction, fiction, and podcasts, but Kickstarter has also funded the publication of poetry, comics, graphic novels, journalism, anthologies and literary magazines. Kickstarter’s general publishing has been on an upward trend.
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NWAOnline
Communication should be clear, and strict grammar rules can sometimes make that more difficult than it should be.
Language evolves, and so does grammar. Brenda Looper, editor at Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, is prepared to boldly go — are you?
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The New York Times
Jennifer Senior only recently became a book critic. In 2014, when her own book came out, she remembers living in deathly fear of the critic she is today. How many jobs involve submitting your work to the scrutiny of a paid corps of strangers? It seemed, at the time, like someone’s idea of a cruel joke. Now, as a person who writes reviews for a living, Senior is curious to know: How do professional authors handle unsparing criticism, written in just a few days or weeks, of something they’ve toiled over for years?
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The Guardian
A team of U.S. academics has revealed that reading literary fiction improves our understanding of other people’s emotions but genre fiction does not. It’s a piece of research that seems to have more holes than the plot of "Midsomer Murders."
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Publishers Weekly
Keith Stuart, games editor for The Guardian, writes: "In September, my debut novel, 'A Boy Made of Blocks,' will be published in 25 countries. This was a complete accident. In February 2015, I was sitting at my desk in the London office of The Guardian newspaper, cursing the fact that the train back to my home was running an hour late. That particular afternoon, having read a slightly snide article about Marcus 'Notch' Persson, the creator of the wildly successful computer game Minecraft, I decided to write a personal piece of admiration for this guy and his game."
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