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“Where do I find the formatting conventions for a manuscript, or a source file for publishing?”

October 16, 2020 by Nic Nelson Leave a Comment

This question came up recently—again!—so I thought I’d answer it here for posterity. TFor manuscript formatting (suitable when you’re preparing the document to be submitted to contests, to agents, to acquisitions agents and publishers) use standard manuscript format. William Shunn is a bit of a codger: no one uses Courier anymore (Classic Format). Use Times […]

Filed Under: Blog, Creative Entrepreneurship, Editing, Publish Wisely

Subsidy Publishing: Pros, Cons, and Harsh Realities

July 14, 2020 by Nic Nelson 2 Comments

Normally I might subtitle this “the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” but in this case, I want to help you distinguish between the Professionals and the Con artists, as well as understand one fundamental truth about all subsidy publishers. Understand this harsh reality, unflinchingly incorporate it into your strategic thinking, and you’ll be able […]

Filed Under: Blog, Publish Wisely

LinkedIn deserves a fresh appraisal

June 23, 2020 by Nic Nelson Leave a Comment

Hmmm, second thoughts...

After Sheri Kent’s advice at the GLAWS panel discussion this past Saturday, I definitely want to get up to speed with LinkedIn, “the platform I’m on, but mostly ignore.” This morning, I got an email from LInkedIn inviting me to this live-stream event!  It begins at 10:00am Pacific, this Friday, it’s free, and I’ll be […]

Filed Under: Blog, Creative Entrepreneurship, Publish Wisely Tagged With: Lifelong Learning, LinkedIn, Online Learning

Ugly Truth of Life: you gotta pay taxes

April 30, 2020 by Nic Nelson Leave a Comment

Congratulations, your books are finally beginning to sell well! Now the Tax Man looms. You’ll want to get the jump on him now so that he won’t haunt, or actually harm, your fledgling business in the future. The longer you ignore him, the more frightening a threat he becomes. Let’s dispatch that threat right now. […]

Filed Under: Creative Entrepreneurship, Publish Wisely

Four tips for academic critique…

April 29, 2020 by Nic Nelson Leave a Comment

Here is a little glimpse of the kind of content you’ll find in our Academic Reading Training Seminar, drawn from the new online version that debuted last week —and which continues this week! It involves about nine hours of content plus time spent putting those skills and strategies to work. We won’t just feed you […]

Filed Under: Academia, Blog

It’s been a long time coming…

April 17, 2020 by Nic Nelson Leave a Comment

Next week we are doing a beta run of the online version of our Academic Reading seminar! Until now, we had only offered this foundational seminar in person, for individuals, small groups, and cohorts. But with the Covid-19 quarantine measures currently in place, we had to close our office. This has only accelerated our plans […]

Filed Under: Academia, Blog

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