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- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Celebrating Christmas without subscribing to Christianity is like watching the Super Bowl without watching a regular season game. Some people watch the Super Bowl for the commercials; others watch it for the halftime show.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once an ebook hits the Kindle Top 100, sales tend to snowball as new customers discover it in greater numbers.
- Plagiarism
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- Nov 07, 2020
With traditional publishing, books might be pulled due to plagiarism or libel - but rarely for content, and especially not without a widespread outcry.
- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I've never asked my publisher to pull one of my books off the shelves, I have deleted tweets or blog posts that have drawn criticism.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not always caving to pressure: Sometimes criticism hits close to home; sometimes criticism changes our minds about something we've put out into the world.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is a common misconception about antidepressants: many people believe they're simply 'happy pills' that will wipe a person's emotional slate clean. Used correctly, antidepressants can lift the fog of mental illness.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of silencing artists, is it possible that antidepressants can actually help them vocalize their creative ambitions?
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer who has struggled with depression, the question is one that has long troubled me. Should I resist treatment, on the off-chance my creative output will somehow be affected?
- Hotel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Way before musicians and actors cornered the market on misbehavior, writers were flooding hotel rooms and testing their livers' upper limits.
- Declined
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barnes & Noble, along with other independent bookstores, are refusing to stock Amazon Publishing titles. They'll order books from the online retail giant if customers ask, but bookstores have so far declined to be 'showrooms' for Amazon.
- Juice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Buying reviews of ebooks that include downloads is a well-known way to 'juice' an ebook's sales rank and attract new readers.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The higher a book's sales ranks, the better chances it has of being noticed by Amazon's internal recommendations engine.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Visibility is one of the most difficult parts of the self-publishing equation. No matter how great your book is, it is fighting against a tidal wave of cheap ebooks on Amazon.
- Enough People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can pay enough people to buy your .99 ebook and review it positively, and crack one of Amazon's bestseller lists, readers are going to check it out. Especially at a low price point like .99. Customers are suckers for the fallacy that the cream rises to the top.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
I catch Filter in Des Moines doing their soundcheck at a small club. After tearing through a few songs, they spend nearly an hour meeting with fans as part of a radio station meet-and-greet.
- Filter
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Patrick finally broke his silence with 2008's 'Anthems For the Damned' - the first Filter album that he recorded sober - fans were decidedly lukewarm.
- Featured
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Anthems' was a harsh indictment of American foreign policy; the video for the first single featured an American flag engulfed in a pool of oil, imagery which might have been risque in 2002, but seemed unimaginably passe in the last year of Bush's presidency.
- Odds
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many non-believers who have entered substance abuse programs have found themselves at odds with the religious overtones prevalent in the recovery industry.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every published writer, myself included, was at one time unpublished. All writers know what rejection feels like.
- Creative Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
After finishing my undergraduate work at the University of Iowa, where I took creative writing classes taught by Writer's Workshop students, I applied to half a dozen MFA writing programs.
- Philosophy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cremer's 'Nightshade' is a smart blend of romance, action, philosophy, and pagan witchcraft. And, yes, high-schoolers shape-shifting into wolves.
- First Step
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- Nov 07, 2020
'First Step 2 Forever' is a hardcover, multi-colored monstrosity that clocks in at 240 pages... half of which feature full-page pictures of the 16-year-old Bieber.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young adult author Richelle Mead holds the distinction to perhaps be the only author ever to have a book banned... before it was even written.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2009, the American Library Association recorded 460 challenges reported to the Office of Intellectual Freedom.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
Richelle Mead's 'Vampire Academy' saga is set to be the next young adult paranormal series to become a household name.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was under the impression that if you've read one vampire series for young adults, you've read them all.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hottest new attraction at Disney World has got to be the new Last Airbender ride.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Universal Orlando may have the new Harry Potter Wizarding World, but Disney World has the Hari Puttar Experience, based on the Bollywood movie, 'Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors.'
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difficult part of writing about someone you don't admire is that it's easy to demonize them. What you get then is a cackling villain, twirling their mustache at every dastardly deed they commit.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a struggle to humanize Donald Trump, who was the antagonist in my satirical thriller 'The Day of the Donald'. Of course, I heard from some readers who thought I made Trump too likable.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Hope Never Dies', Biden attempts to disguise himself with a beach look, hoping that the incongruity of it will allow him to snoop around Wilmington without being recognized. Obama, on the other hand, knows the best way to keep a low profile is to just be himself.
- Cadillac
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the White House, Obama was driven around in an armored Cadillac limo nicknamed 'The Beast.' In 'Hope Never Dies,' he blows his book deal advance on 'The Little Beast,' a black Cadillac Escalade upgraded with military-grade armor and shocks so good 'you can drive over a land mine and not spill your tea.'
- Party
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- Nov 07, 2020
In their political careers, Obama and Biden faced down lobbyists, Tea Party carpetbaggers, and Washington gridlock.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Hope Never Dies', the fictional Obama and Biden go up against drug traffickers, outlaw bikers, and other seedy opponents. They're forced to use skills they didn't know they had. Or, to put it another way, unlike Jordan Peele's Obama, this Obama doesn't need an anger translator.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're reading a mystery novel, you kind of want the character to solve the crime instead of completely bumble their way through it.
- Buildings
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chicago is a city built on architecture, and there are plenty of buildings to scale.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't want to write the same story again, but people are like 'We want the same story but different.' Well, how do you do that?
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what you do, you're going to run into haters online. We're not talking about ordinary, disgruntled customers who should be addressed with empathy and understanding. Haters are a breed apart.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020