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October 25, 2015 By Ruth Harris 29 Comments

The Joy of Writing: How to Keep it During NaNoWriMo

The Joy of Writing: How to Keep it During NaNoWriMo

8 Bestselling Authors Share Tips and Tricks for Finding and Keeping Joy in Your Writing   by Ruth Harris The Joy of Writing? During National Novel Writing Month? You’re kidding, right?A 55K word novel in a month?You’re fretting, nervous, sweaty. Performance anxiety in excelsis? Brain block? What brain? Writing should be fun and NaNo is […]

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Filed Under: The Writing Life, Writing Craft Tagged With: Consuelo Saah Baehr, Grace Burrowes, How to write a bestselling novel, Husband Training School, Joe Konrath, Khaled Talib, Lindsay Buroker, NaNoWriMo, Ruth Harris, Vanessa Kelly, Writing tips

May 5, 2013 By Anne R. Allen 64 Comments

Gangs of New Media: Twitchforks, the Hive Mind, and “Social Lasers of Cruelty”

Gangs of New Media: Twitchforks, the Hive Mind, and “Social Lasers of Cruelty”

by Anne R. Allen   I spend a lot of time here telling writers how and why to use social media, but I don’t often address the dangers. Yeah, they exist. I don’t know why, but otherwise sensible people can morph into irrational brutes when they’ve got their fingers on a keyboard and a connection […]

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Filed Under: E-Books and Technology for Writers, Scams and Alerts for Writers, Social Media and Marketing For Writers, The Writing Life Tagged With: Anne Rice review, Barry Eisler, Cyber-bullying, Groupthink, Hive Mind, Jaron Lanier, Joe Konrath, Kristen Lamb, Nathan Bransford, Porter Anderson, SheWrites, Social Lasers of Cruelty, Twitchforks

December 2, 2012 By Anne R. Allen 70 Comments

Indie Publishing: Why We Can’t Party Like It’s 2009

Indie Publishing: Why We Can’t Party Like It’s 2009

by Anne R. Allen   Amazon’s Kindle turned five years old last week. What an exciting half-decade it’s been! Jeff Bezos showed his genius when he gave his e-reader that name. The device sparked a conflagration that is still pretty much out of control. The old publishing world is in chaos, and nobody has a […]

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Filed Under: E-Books and Technology for Writers, Self-Publishing, Social Media and Marketing For Writers Tagged With: Big 6-5-4, Derek Haines, Jane Friedman, Joe Konrath, KDP Select, Kindle Millionaires, Kobo, Kristen McLean, Mark Coker, Meghan Ward, missing Amazon reviews, Smashwords, sock puppet reviews. Elisa Lorello

December 25, 2011 By Ruth Harris 36 Comments

Procrastination: your best friend in disguise?

Procrastination: your best friend in disguise?

   by Ruth Harris   I’d like to start this December 25 post by extending my heartiest congratulations to those Master Procrastinators who are still putting off their Christmas shopping. You’re the pros and we salute you! Now to the rest of us: My mission (and I chose to accept it) was to blog about […]

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Filed Under: The Writing Life, Writing Craft Tagged With: Consuelo Saah Baehr, DD Scott, Jill Metcalf, Joe Konrath, Lawrence Block, Liliana Hart, procrastination, Robert B. Parker, Ruth Harris, Shelly Thacker, Zoe Winters

May 15, 2011 By Anne R. Allen 58 Comments

Is the E-book the New Query?

Is the E-book the New Query?

by Anne R. Allen If you’re like me, you’re getting a little bored with the indie vs. legacy publishing debate. People are talking a lot of crap on both “sides” of what shouldn’t be an either/or argument in the first place. (See sci-fi author Jeff Carlson’s great post on the subject here.) But this week I […]

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Filed Under: Self-Publishing, The Publishing Business Tagged With: Anne R. Allen, BookCountry.com, How to get an agent, Jane Friedman, Jeff Carlson, Joe Konrath, Kindle publishing, Self e-publishing, Stephen Leather

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Anne R. AllenAnne R. Allen writes funny mysteries and how-to-books for writers. She also writes poetry and short stories on occasion. She’s a contributor to Writer’s Digest and the Novel and Short Story Writer’s Market.

Her bestselling Camilla Randall Mystery Series features perennially down-on-her-luck former socialite Camilla Randall—who is a magnet for murder, mayhem and Mr. Wrong, but always solves the mystery in her quirky, but oh-so-polite way.

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