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Amy Hill Hearth, ASJA
 I’ve done many book tours over the years, most recently when my publisher, Simon & Schuster's Atria Books, sent me on the road this fall to promote my new novel, Miss Dreamsville and the Lost Heiress of Collier County.
Book tours are becoming less common, so if you’re selected to do one, you’ll want to make the most of it. Here are a few things I’ve learned along the way:
First, when your publicity team plans your tour, be involved. Try to avoid choosing flights on the same day as your book-signing, and whenever possible, ask for non-stop flights.
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The New York Times
Authorities in Iran announced that the American journalist Jason Rezaian, a Washington Post reporter held by the government for 16 months and charged with espionage, had been sentenced to prison. The Iranian government made the announcement with as much transparency as it has shown in this case all along: none.
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Writer's Digest
Writers must write every day. That's the mantra. Authors ranging from Ray Bradbury to Ernest Hemingway to Doris Lessing all propound the necessity of writing daily. But the thing is, writers are also humans, and many humans have an irksome desire to procreate. And those tiny humans that arrive into the writer’s well-constructed, disciplined, every day writing routine are selfishly indifferent to this mantra.
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The Huffington Post
The big traditional publishers often promote their books by highlighting the number of languages the books has been translated into. With the global publishing marketplace easier to access than ever, self-published authors are selling foreign rights to grow their audience around the world and promote the number of foreign rights sales to increase sales at home - just like the big publishers.
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Columbia Journalism Review
Michael Koretzky saw an opportunity — that's what he would call it, anyway. It was early May, and the Society of Professional Journalists had abandoned its #SPJEthicsWeek Twitter chat after it was overrun by numerous posts tagged with #Gamergate. The hashtag drew mainstream media attention last year for reactionary trolling and mob-like harassment online, aimed mostly at feminist writers and critics.
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CNNMoney
Oxford Dictionaries' 2015 word of the year is difficult to pronounce. Because it has no letters. It is a cartoon yellow face, shedding two giant tears.
They are not tears of sadness for the English language. It is a happy crying face, most commonly used as an LOL alternative.
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GalleyCat
Audiobooks.com is getting into the self-publishing business.
Aiming to be what Smashwords is to audiobooks, the site has created a audiobook distribution service called "Author's Republic" which will allow self-published authors to sell sell audiobooks through more than a dozen distributors and retailers.
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NiemanLab
If you could set up recurring donations to your favorite and most-frequented news sites, of your own accord and in amount of your own choosing, would you do it?
David Karger hopes to tap people's more charitable natures with Tipsy, a free browser extension that records how much time you spend on any given site and then divvies up a chunk of change — which you can predetermine and tweak at any time — based on proportional time spent.
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Publishers Weekly
E.C. Murray considers her first book, the self-help title Life Kind of Sucks, an experiment in self-publishing. So when it came time to release her second book, the memoir A Long Way from Paris, she decided to do things differently, leveraging her experience and embracing all aspect of the self-publishing process. Murray quickly realized how demanding the indie route could be: handling distribution and marketing is "time consuming…even with a publicist who arranges visits. I need to follow up with press releases, event calendars, and so forth."
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Literary Hub
It's always an intellectual mistake to assume that the thing you love the most might be the exception. I remember listening to a public-radio conversation a few years ago in which two people debated the necessity and romance of record stores (a very large and storied one in NYC had just closed) and thinking, "Well, of course record stores are going to close. It's sad, but it's the way of the world." And feeling kind of smug about it because I don't frequent record stores.
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