February 2020
5 Ways to Overcome Writer's Wait
Want to Be a Better Writer? Read
From the Tech Desk: Predictions for the New Decade
Indie Groundbreaking Book: O America
Indie Groundbreaking Bookseller: The Raven
Indie Groundbreaking Publisher: Scribe Publishing
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IPPY Awards 2020: Final Entry Deadline is Feb. 22
“We initially conceived the IPPYs to help recognize the work of independent publishers who were ignored by major publications and awards programs."
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Want to Be a Better Writer? Read
"From the age of eight I’d read as if my life depended on it, and the older I got the more selective I grew. With few exceptions I kept to the best authors, meaning those who wrote with an eye to fashioning stories that stood a reasonable chance of sticking around long after they themselves were no more."
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5 Ways to Overcome Writer's Wait
"Sometimes we writers wait like dogs. But it isn’t the waiting itself that’s a bad thing, it’s the forlorn connotations and the self-sabotaging language we apply that get in the way of being constructive about our waiting. As writers, what’s more familiar to us than revision?"
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An Ode to the Library
"Libraries and bookstores are the hubs for the writing community. Libraries bring in authors for readings and lectures (and) serve as meeting places for writing groups and solo authors who need a creative setting and relative quiet."
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From the Tech Desk
"Where everything from music to film to television to news media is virtually unrecognizable from where we were 10 years ago, publishing’s disruptions have not proved to be as revolutionary."
O America: Discovery in a New Land
"Who is calculating the future? When I raise these issues with an American, I receive a look suggesting I must be simple to challenge headlong affluence. Perhaps so, but hasty and unreckoned change is not always a salutary companion to liberty."
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Scribe Publishing Companyby Jim Barnes / August 2019 “If I knew then what I know now, I probably wouldn’t be here, but I also wouldn’t have created the job I always wanted, where I wanted it.” |
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The Raven Book Storeby Jim Barnes / December 2019 “For our part, we try to level things by being really good at what we do, and really loud. So we use our platform to try to teach people what’s at stake as Amazon increases its influence and market share." |
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Students from Small Cartooning School Find Outsized Success
"Far from the large cities and cultural centers, a school with less than 40 students in rural Vermont is leaving its mark in a big way." |
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An Ode to the Libraryby Jillian Manning / February 2020 "Libraries and bookstores are the hubs for the writing community. Libraries bring in authors for readings and lectures (and) serve as meeting places for writing groups and solo authors who need a creative setting and relative quiet." |
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From the Tech Deskby Craig Manning / February 2020 "Where everything from music to film to television to news media is virtually unrecognizable from where we were 10 years ago, publishing’s disruptions have not proved to be as revolutionary." |
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O America: Discovery in a New Landby Jim Barnes / February 2020 "Who is calculating the future? When I raise these issues with an American, I receive a look suggesting I must be simple to challenge headlong affluence. Perhaps so, but hasty and unreckoned change is not always a salutary companion to liberty." |
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IPPY Awards 2020: Final Entry Deadline is Feb. 22Celebrating 24 Years of Recognizing Excellence in Independent Publishing |
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Want to Be a Better Writer? Readby J. Michael Dolan IPPY Award-Winning Novelist Followed in Jack London's Footsteps |
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5 Ways to Overcome Writer's Waitby Ellen Notbohm Don't Let the Anxiety of Waiting Get You Down |
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An Ode to the Libraryby Jillian Manning / February 2020 |