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• in Social Media
  Are You Influential? The Odd Need for Social Measurement
  Increasing interest in social media relevance has offered a spawn of measurement solutions, but is this validity or vanity?
  by wordsonthefly / on Oct 9, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “vanity press”

 

• Have Fun Storming the Castle!

  
  Publishing Basics... for the self publisher — Authority: 99
  Recently one of our authors shared the twentieth rendition of a query letter he had prepared to send to an agent. His is an epic novel; a real piece of literature. I was reminded how difficult it is to summarize a story—any story—in just a few lines. The author shared his frustration at the process and how sad it ...
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• Writer Beware: Penguin And Author Solutions

  
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  David Gaughran throws down the gauntlet in his excellent blog post The Author Exploitation Business . He writes: [Being a writer is] a dream job, and like any profession with a horde of neophytes seeking to break in, there are plenty of sharks waiting to chew them to bits. ... [M]any organizations who claim to help ...
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• Vanity Press

  
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  Traditionally, when an author wants to be published, he or she will query an agent, sign with an agent, and that agent will then shop for a publisher. When the agent finds a publisher who wants to publish the author’s work, the agent and the publisher will draw up a contract. Under the terms of this contract, the ...
  3 weeks ago

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