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Covid 19

Hello everyone This is to let you know business will go on as normal except to any personal meetings. All meeting and work will now be via FaceTime, Skype or Zoom. New Zealand is going into Lockdown on Wednesday at midnight. All but essential businesses will be self-isolating for at least four weeks, maybe longer. …
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Open for Submissions – Ghostly Youth Anthology

Plaisted Publishing House has opened its doors for our first Anthology of the year.  Ghostly Youth is for anyone who writes ghost stories for ages 10 and up. Any genre suitable for children is acceptable as long as the story has a ghostly element. Calling all Ghostly Rites Authors! Submissions for Ghostly Youth—Vol 1 open…
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New Features in JAWS

I have a few blind clients and many of them use JAWS so they can use their computers. Here is an update from the site.   New Features in JAWS Posted In Jaws–By Casey The information below has been taken directly from Freedom Scientific. Check out my comments below in the JAWS Wrap up, after the new…
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Universal Book Links with Books to Read

It is strange how things happen in life.  I was investigating Books to Read and their Universal Book Links to see if you had to have books on Draft to Digital to use them.  Apparently not.  I was then going to write an article about how to get your links which then adds the books…
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Have Authors been Compromised?

Written by Real Laplaine August 18, 2019|author, book giveaways, book release, books, free books, reading, writing This could be a touchy subject for some or many, so I apologize in advance if what I am about to say offends you. As an author of 14 published works, so far, and an ardent writer, I found…
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Writing Contests to Enter for 2020

Sometimes a little competition is what you need to get back in the writing game. What better way to do that than to enter writing contests and see how well you’ll do? As writers, we’re often plagued with a whole lot of self-doubt which can have a negative effect on our mental health and our…
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FREE Apps instead of ADOBE

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Facebook Games & Amazon

SHORT OPINION PIECE This could be confusing. Though when I look at it. It isn’t, well not to me. I see games where authors list other authors they know. In fact, I am tagged in these games and I rarely participate. Why? You may ask. Well…it’s because it shows we know each other. It shows,…
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Ten Editing Tips from Melissa Donovan

Editing Tips I spend a lot of time editing other people’s writing and self-editing my own work. In fact, I spend more time revising and proofreading than I do writing. So I thought I’d share a few of my favorite editing tips: 1. Accept Favor Requests for Editing When a friend, family member, or coworker…
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Scam Publishers…Beware, by Victoria Strauss (Writers Beware)

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware® I’ve been expending a lot of words and time lately warning about the latest scam phenomenon to hit the writing world: fake publishing and marketing companies that, through outrageous prices and worthless services, extract enormous amounts of money from unwary writers. Based in the Philippines (despite their apparent US addresses, phone…
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