Tag: writer
member name: Kenneth R. Besser
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July 17, 2007 09:23 AM EDT --
The LA Times ran an interesting piece on July 16, 2007, under the headline Harry Potter and the Diminishing Returns. The story laments the situation confronted by booksellers who find themselves . . .
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July 17, 2007 07:09 PM EDT --
Book publishers may finally be able to help booksellers stave off competition from price-slashing mega-retailers if they will only be willing to show some backbone and take action to prevent it. Following . . .
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August 16, 2007 06:33 PM EDT --
All writers dream of having a bestseller. In order to reach this nadir, you have to do something I call "bestselling" your book. Many writers mistakenly believe the best way to make the . . .
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August 12, 2007 11:32 AM EDT --
As an entirely unexpected surprise recently, I received an e-mail telling me Writer's Digest was making rebroadcasts of select sessions from the Pre-BEA Writer's Conference available to . . .
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July 15, 2007 10:32 AM EDT --
In an attempt to sell The Arnie Carver Adventures (www.ArnieCarver.com) better (and because I would like to use my profits from the series to open a bookstore), I've been perusing the bookseller boards . . .
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August 24, 2007 06:28 AM EDT --
After thirty years of being happily married to the same wonderful person and 111 kid-years of being a parent of six practically perfect children, few things phase me anymore. I thought I had pretty . . .
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September 20, 2007 11:25 AM EDT --
As we have said before, great stories are comprised of great premises involving great people, in grand places, doing wonderful things. All of these things are very important, but at some times . . .
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August 23, 2007 08:33 PM EDT --
I continue to enjoy reading books on how to write better.
In his book, Writing the Breakout Novel, and his seminars based thereon, uber agent Donald Maass somewhat dismisses the value of reviews by asking . . .
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September 04, 2007 01:00 PM EDT --
Donald Maass's twenty-page chapter on stakes in Writing the Breakout Novel can be distilled down to four affirmative words, make the reader care. In order to do that, unless your first draft is miraculously . . .
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August 23, 2007 06:09 AM EDT --
Many people ask the questions, What makes a person successful? and What did they leave behind upon their death as a monument of their success?
The only remnant of our success in life that we leave behind . . .
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September 02, 2007 09:43 AM EDT --
Book reviews only work if they are sufficiently short and to the point. Great works, however, like Donald Maass's how-to manual, Writing the Breakout Novel, sometimes take a little longer. We will . . .
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