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ASJA
ASJA is the only professional association for independent nonfiction writers. Membership is only open to freelance writers with a substantial track record of publication. You may have thought you're not eligible but have you looked lately? Our membership requirements have been broadened to allow former staff journalists to qualify sooner than before. And more kinds of writing now count toward membership! You can find the full details on our website. And if you apply and join before Dec. 1 you’ll get a full month of membership free!
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ASJA
 More clients today require writers to make sure that article sources reflect the publication’s diverse readership. How and where do you find the best sources for that? Is there a market for articles about diversity itself? What are editors looking for when it comes to diversity in topics and sources today? On Nov. 17, ASJA President Randy Dotinga will interview Allyson Hobbs, the award-winning author of a book about African-Americans passing as whites, for her insights into how we can bring more diversity to our assignments and writing experiences.
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ASJA
 Each year ASJA recognizes distinguished achievements in articles and books with a series of awards, which are presented during the annual ASJA Writers Conference. Two awards are open to the public, The Arlene Awards: Books and Articles That Make a Difference and the Donald Robinson Award for Investigative Reporting. All other awards are open only to ASJA members in good standing.
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Joan Price, ASJA
 How can busy writers find time for exercise with workdays filled with deadlines, pitches, and editors asking for one more rewrite? If you think you don't have time to exercise, you don’t have time not to! You'll work more productively, decrease emotional stress and muscle tension, and have more energy all day if you take minutes of exercise many times during your day.
Notice that I say minutes of exercise — not hours, not even half-hours. The health benefits of exercise kick in when you accumulate 30 to 60 minutes of exercise a day, even in little bursts of a few minutes at a time, gathered over the course of the day. Research shows that exercise in a number of short sessions enhances health, keeps the heart and lungs strong, helps with weight loss, and decreases the risk of premature death and a multitude of lifestyle diseases.
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The WRITER
As the clocks fall back, so can motivation to get up each day and write. With the long months of winter upon us, it's time to seek out tried-and-true strategies to stay inspired. We've collected stories of inspiration to keep your creativity steamed up as we enter the cold weather months.
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Author Magazine
Whether you're self-publishing, traditionally publishing, or working with a small press, editing is a crucial part of the publishing process. But it’s just as important to work on your own manuscript as much as you can first, before an editor ever gets involved. New authors sometimes worry that they don’t know enough about editing to revise effectively on their own. It’s true that self-editing doesn’t replace the need for an objective editor, but it’s also true that by taking a few hints from those same editors, authors can make sure their revisions are heading in the right direction.
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Writer's Digest
If you've got a book scheduled for release, whether it's traditionally published or indie-published, the onus is on you to promote it. Here are some helpful strategies for making a big splash by using social media to build buzz before your book comes out.
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Reuters and NBC News
Remember paper books? They're still not going away. Amazon — you know, the website — is set to open its first physical book store in Seattle, the company said. The brick-and-mortar store, Amazon Books, is a physical extension of Amazon.com with books being selected based on customer ratings and pre-orders on Amazon.com — and some of those ratings will appear on the shelves beneath books.
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Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly praised Mark Lingane's self-published sci-fi noir Sucker in a review, saying: "Dark-fantasy fans will enjoy this gritty supernatural mystery and its memorable protagonist." Lingane, however, isn’t content to write in just one genre. He’s authored books across a variety of categories, including romance and YA. Still, he admits that genre-hopping can be difficult for indie authors because readers tend to stick with preferred genres.
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Mediatel Newsline
here is no arguing we are living in a digital age and for most publishers, the last decade has been one of unprecedented change and upheaval. The rapid proliferation of advertising formats, channels and the evolution to a real-time advertising sales market has changed publishing in ways that even the industry's smartest minds could never have predicted.
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Publishers Weekly
Writing a Will Eisner biography is no easy task. For one thing, there's no lack of information out there chronicling the life of the cartoonist. As author Paul Levitz, former president of DC Comics, now a professor, comics writer and Boom! Studios board member, notes in the introduction to his new biography, "Eisner is the subject of many articles, two biographies, two documentaries, and innumerable scholarly papers." And then, of course, there's the issue of scope.
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Inc.
To help you get into the mind of the billionaire investor, Inc. rounded up 18 of his book recommendations over 20 years of interviews and shareholder letters.
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