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      Categorizing Your Book

      Book-buying and Reading Habits 2009

      Should Writers Tweet, Facebook, etc?

      Adding Value for Magazine Editors

      Do You Back Up Your Files?

      Recommended Sources and Resources for writers

      "Traditional Writing Goes the Way of the Dodo" by Sonu Purhar, My Westworld (BCAA magazine), May 2009

     Online Book Builders

      Creativity (Part One)

     The Verbal Pitch

      Starting Your Synopsis

      Squeezing All You Can Out of Your Articles

    Rejection: it's not always a bad thing

      An Author's Chronicle of Book Production

      The Art of the Pitch

    Crystal Ball Gazing: Publishing Trends in 2006

    Writers' Groups...should you join one?

    Top Freelancers Give Advice

    FAQs on submissions

    Should I write for no fee?

    Must-have info for authors

    Print and electronic rights

   Follow-ups: How and when to do them

    Promotion - post-publication

   Promotion - pre-publication

   Tantalizing Titles

   Attending a Writers' Conference

   Clips and Tearsheets and How to Send Them.

   Writing Online: the New Adventure for Writers

   Print on Demand. What is it?

   Six Sure-Fire Ways to Improve Your Query Letters

   Five Proven Ways to Increase Your Chances of Getting Published (on Writers' Gazette website)

   The Long and Short of Writing Your Bio
          Feature article at The Write Resource

   "My Book is About..." Writing its mission statement

   Freelance Editors: Should I Hire One?

   Good News for Canadian Writers

   Literary Agents: Are They Essential?

   Memoirs and Autobiographies

   The Top Seven Mistakes eBook Authors Make

   Book Promotion Schedule

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