In honor of banned books week, I looked at the list of the most challenged books from 1990-1999. I’ve read a lot of them, but there are quite a few I haven’t.
I’ve read:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
Forever, by Judy Blume
Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
Sex, [...]
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Before my blog tour started, I posted some of the lessons I had learned about planning it. Now that it has reached its conclusion, I wanted to take a few minutes to share the lessons I learned about doing it.
Remember how I said to plan early? Do that, but also ensure that your hosts commit [...]
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Until my blog tour winds down, I’ll be sharing links and thoughts on Twitter instead of in the weekly roundup.
I’ll be back on Monday, Sept. 28, with my usual thrice weekly posts.
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For the next two weeks, I will be doing my virtual tour to support my non-fiction book, The Best of Learning & Leading with Technology: Selections from Volumes 31-35.
I’ll be here for the weekly roundups, but posting will likely be sparse other than that. If you’re interested in following the tour, you can get your [...]
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Here is a handy table of contents that will help you quickly reach the topic of your choice. Let me know if you like it this way.
The Business of Writing
Craft
Fiction
Freelancing
Platform
The Business of Writing
Freemium for Writers Is Two Debates
Don Holloway provides interesting insight into the concept of using free content to increase readership and, we hope, [...]
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I’ve been working for the last few months to plan a virtual tour to promote my book The Best of Learning & Leading with Technology. It is a lot more work pulling it all together than I would ever have dreamed. I’ve learned a few lessons about this monumental organizing task that I hope will [...]
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Holidays are a funny thing for we writers. Many of us have day jobs, and many of us have the day off from them today. Yay!
But, I will be spending a large portion of my day writing, networking, researching–you know, working. Labor Day will be like any other weekend day, when I work on my [...]
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Public Service Message: If you are affected by the Google Books settlement and you want to opt out, today is the deadline. Here is the link to opt out.
The Business of Writing
Books: The Big Story Is Consolidation
This Financial Times article argues for further consolidation of book publishers so they can compete with Amazon and Google. [...]
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On Monday, I talked about how to avoid taking on too much writing work, but what if you have already over-committed?
Prioritize
Lay out all of your projects and assign a numerical priority to each based on deadline and contractual obligations. Yes, this means you should work on the boring contracted piece before you dive [...]
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