We’re at that point in the semester where my students are getting ready to submit their first essays. I work a lot with college students who are placed in the composition class one level below Freshman Writing; they are, for many reasons, a bit under-prepared for academic discourse, and my main goal is to get…
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So there I was, sitting in the lobby at the Upland Martial Arts Center, watching my daughter (a green belt at the time), go through her forms when the karate-dad sitting next to me mentioned that he’d just put a novel up on Lulu. He’d had a couple of mysteries he’d written years before that…
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I’ve been reading Guy Kawasaki’s excellent book, APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book. Kawasaki does a very nice job of describing and explaining each part of the process, stressing that an independent writer in today’s market needs to be all three of those things if he or she is going to succeed while…
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