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Update from Draft to Digital Print!

Supply Chain Delays May Impact D2D Print As a user of our D2D Print service, we wanted to inform you of the potential for delays for print on demand services that may arise in the coming months. Our print partner has informed us that they are preparing for disruptions to various aspects of the print…
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Extra Payment on LULU

Well, it seems everyone is changing and charging. I’m wondering when it will stop. At this rate, it is going to be too expensive to be an Independent Author. I signed into LULU this afternoon and saw the statement below on a closable flag across my computer screen. Beginning October 1st 2021, a small Fulfilment…
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Word War is BACK – Affect/Effect

With Cac, the Proofreader WORD WAR is back. I will be doing these each Tuesday, and they will be much shorter than before…at least I will attempt that! Let’s go! Affect v. Effect. Affect is ??????? a verb. It means to impact or change. Transform. “How did that affect you?” Effect is ??????? a noun,…
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Publishing Confusion – Part One

YOUR TIME ISN’T FREE – EVERY MINUTE IS WORTH…? There are lots of new writers out there each and every day. There is also a heck of a lot of confusion in writing groups. The same questions get asked constantly, people give inaccurate information to each other, few do their own research to find the…
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English Language and your Readers!

Who is your Audience? Do you know? Do you care? Remember choosing your Audience also affects the marketing you will need to do. Editing is not my thing. I do my best work helping with the flow and structure of a manuscript. I’ll call it proofreading for now. Some things are easy to see and…
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Book Reviews with Amazon…Yeah Right!

Why oh why is Amazon making it even harder to put up reviews for authors.  First they curtail your reviews because you supposedly know the author or you publish the author or help them publish.  Now Amazon is telling you to spend over $50 to actually put a review in place. That would be a…
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The Long Lost Future by Ian Cattell

  Randall didn’t know he had a destiny until it interrupted his lunch one day; and it was bigger than he could possibly have imagined (his destiny, not his lunch). That’s when he met the mysterious Marcus Han – brainier than a clumsy butcher’s floor, and secretly the richest man in the world, he would…
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Indie Publishing News Feb 2018

Please note this is last months magazine. Your next FREE Marketing Magazine will be out soon.  Thank you for the support. Please SHARE CONTENTS Poem by Audrina Lane, From the Editors Desk, Flash Fiction – Seriously 21st Century by Jane Risdon, Spotlight Graphic Designer – Melissa Ringuette – Monark Designs, Indie Author Reviews, Flash Fiction –…
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Wanted – Bloggers and Reader Reviewers

First of all I would like to thank everyone who follows Plaisted Publishing House. It is wonderful to see you all reading my posts and leaving messages.  Now we get to what iweneed…Let’s see if you can help. We are setting up a list for Bloggers who will promote Indie Authors via Blog Tours and…
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Amazon Buy Basket – ADD TO CART

Yes I have seen the blogs, the posts on Facebook and everyone panicking and scrambling to see what can be done.  Meanwhile, at Plaisted Publishing, I am calmly watching on to see what people do.  Well that was until a client asked me about what they should do. Most of you know by now that…
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