From the monthly archives:

March 2008

How Bloggers Get Book Deals

March 31, 2008

Great story in the NYTimes on another blog book deal.

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Age of Conversation

March 30, 2008
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I’m a day behind on posting this! I’m hoping that all of you will go and purchase the first edition of “Age Of Conversation” at Amazon here. The book was the idea of Gavin Heaton and Drew McLellan who challenged bloggers around the world to contribute one page – 400 words – on the [...]

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Vote for Your Favorite Book at 800CEORead.com

March 30, 2008

Don’t miss the vote at 800CEORead.com (go to the “Vote for your Favorite Book” post) and vote for your favorite book of all time. I had to vote for Dr. Seuss’s “Oh, The Places You’ll Go” and if your book is not listed there, then by all means see if you can add it for [...]

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Earth Hour Tonight 8 to 9Pm in your TimeZone

March 29, 2008
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Let your house go dark for an hour tonight in support of Earth Hour. Google’s doing it all day but you can do it at least for one hour!

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Marsha Friedman’s Five Tips for First Interview

March 28, 2008

Cincom’s Expert Access newsletter features Event Management Services Inc.’s, Marsha Friedman’s superb insight on preparing for your first TV interview.
Read it and be prepared! Marsha is tops in her field!

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Wiley and Web 2.0 for Dummies

March 28, 2008

Great article on John Wiley and Sons and their Web 2.0 focus.
And if you want to read one really good blog on Web 2.0, publishing, Kindle etc. then I highly recommend Joe Wikert’s blog.

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“Made to Stick” authors ink second book deal

March 27, 2008

Just found this story on PW about Chip and Dan Heath’s new book. It sounds like another winner and I highly recommend their first book, “Made to Stick” as well.
The new one is titled, “Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard”, and is going to be published by Doubleday. For the full story [...]

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Blog the Change

March 25, 2008

I’m going to be out of the office today and tomorrow and thought that might be a good time to launch a personal blog that I’ve wanted to do for at least a couple of years now. The blog is “Blog The Change” and I encourage all of you to stop by and answer [...]

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Comics and NPR

March 24, 2008

I love this story on NPR about three writers who have created comic novels to showcase their stories.
One of the things my family does every summer (and I’ve written about this before) is we put our TVs up from May to August and we find other things to illuminate our evenings! One of them comes [...]

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Query letters, Narrative form, Writer’s Digest

March 24, 2008

I love Nathan Bransford’s blog on query letters and “Nate Dogg”.
Roy C. Clarke’s superb take on narrative form.
And the history of Writer’s Digest and why you should be reading it.

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Virtual Author Visits – Success!

March 21, 2008

Great article in Publisher’s Weekly on how traditional publishers are moving forward and helping more readers get in touch with authors on a virtual basis. Superb.

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In Memory of Arthur C. Clarke

March 18, 2008

A sad day that Arthur C. Clarke has passed away.
Here are his three laws of prediction excerpted from Wikipedia:
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of [...]

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