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ASJA
Last week, the White House commended ASJA via Twitter for honoring journalists James Foley, Steven Sotloff and Austin Tice with the Conscience in Media award.
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ASJA
ASJA is proud to be a member of the coalition of 13 organizations that sponsor Banned Books Week, an annual nationwide event celebrating the freedom to read. We recognize that any abridgement of this freedom affects us all as writers, readers, researchers, and citizens, and we want to do all we can to combat censorship in any form.
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ASJA
Join us for a one hour teleseminar on Sept. 16 as we learn how ASJA member Judy Mandel's memoir, Replacement Child, found its way from a self-published start to a home with a traditional publisher and a spot on The New York Times best seller list for e-books.
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Janice Lynch Schuster, ASJA
For all my life, no matter where I was or what I was doing (including earning an undergraduate degree in mathematics), I thought of myself as a writer, mostly a poet, but one who would venture into other literary arts, from personal essays to short fiction. I played guitar, but did not consider myself to be a musician. And I knitted, but would hardly think of myself as a fiber artist. In my personal and professional life, I wrote: happy, sad, busy, engaged, exhausted or exhilarated.
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Writer's Digest
Progressive literary agencies are redefining the traditional role of the agent — and finding new ways to support authors in the digital era. Here's what savvy writers — beginning and experienced alike — should know.
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Hartford Courant
Three years ago Laura Noe mused, "I could write a book." That phrase used to carry the same credibility as "I could eat a horse." Hardly anyone did either.
Not anymore.
Indeed, Laura Noe, like thousands of others today, has found her muse: She has self-published her book. "Travels with My Son: Journeys of the Heart" debuted on Amazon in June for $15, and in mid-August she sold more than 30 copies at a book-launch party in her hometown of Branford.
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Digital Book World
To understand why Facebook is so demonstrably bad at selling books, you have to understand two key concepts that agents, publishers and marketing experts fail to mention whenever they encourage (and sometimes force) authors to build their "platforms."
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Writers Write Blog
Today, it seems that everyone is a blogger. Setting up a blog is simple. If your mother can set up a Facebook profile, chances are she will be able to set up a blog.
So, if it is that simple, why are you not blogging?
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The Bookseller
Book sales of traditionally published books in the U.S. fell by almost 6 percent in the first five months of this year, compared to the same period the year before.
Overall sales for trade fiction and non-fiction, children, higher education, professional and university presses were down 5.8 percent from January to May 2015 to $4 billion, compared to $4.3 billion for the same five months last year, according to the AAP StatShot, produced by the Association of American Publishers (AAP).
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Publishers Weekly
Almost nine decades after the last of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories appeared in Strand magazine, new exploits of the master detective continue to appear. Titan Books, in particular, has carved out a niche in publishing pastiches, averaging about four new Holmes novels per year, including everything from traditional tales to steampunk reimaginings.
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