Marketing Overload

Have you noticed that every new networking site almost immediately has a handful of “experts” and every new marketing idea comes complete with someone offering a free teleseminar or webinar that primarily offers just enough information to make you want to sign up for a costly series of seminars?
I got three of them this morning [...]

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I have a lot of things to get done today: ghostwriting classes to schedule and promote, editing clients to work with, a Monday morning desk to be de-papered. Here’s the problem, I also have cats.
There are no words to describe how difficult it is to type with a cat on my lap. He wants his [...]

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Ran into another person today who did not understand the difference between authors, writers, and ghostwriters. Allow me to elucidate.
The AUTHOR of a piece is the person whose name is on the cover, the person whose ideas or story forms the foundation of the piece. Traditionally, the WRITER was also the AUTHOR, but that is [...]

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Had such a great class session today (fiction substantive editing), I want to do some rooftop shouting. Alas, my rooftop is neither sturdy enough or quiet enough.
Ergo, I blog.
While I admit certain things are still missing from the textbook because I am STILL in the process of doing that rewrite, nevertheless the class worked. Plot [...]

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In a meeting with an author and her friend this afternoon, I stated categorically that I was going to blog, that I had been meaning to blog, that I was overdue to blog, and that there was no good reason for me not to blog.
So I’ve decided to blog. The upside of this conviction is [...]

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