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Scribd.: the New Self-Publishing Highrise

You send a manuscript to New York agent.  The agent sends it to an editor who buys it for a lot of money.  Soon your book is on the New York Times bestseller list.
A dream? Well, as Bloody Mary sings in South Pacific, “You gotta have a dream/If you don’t have a dream/How you gonna make a dream come true?”

A Hand in History

It has been said that “the Internet is word of mouth writ large.”  (Why yes, in fact, it was first said by yours truly.  Thank you for asking.)  And so it was on the Internet that I “heard” about Lincoln’s Hand a new mystery by Joel Fox, published by Echelon Press, which introduces series hero Zane Rigby, an FBI agent with more baggage than will fit under the seat in front of him.

 

Cheap, but not Always Easy

(First published on FoxandHoundsDaily on August 6, 2010)

    On a busy New York street a young man stops an older passer-by.  “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?”

    The older man puts a hand on his shoulder.  “Practice, my boy.  Practice.”

Martha Alderson Plots to Help Us All

    Martha Alderson says, “Plot is more than just ‘what happens, what happens’ – it’s the characters’ reaction to the events, how they’re transformed by those events and, in the end, how it all connects thematically.”

Private Eyes Are Watching You

    As Reece Hirsch says, next time you feel like you’re being watched, you probably are.

    As a novelist, Reece Hirsch is the author of The Insider, a new legal thriller.  As an attorney, Hirsch specializes in privacy issues.