Category: Entertainment
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Kinfolk and Advocates or “How to Build a Platform”
Chapter ten in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101. Imagine with me a whirlpool. You know, Charybdis from the Odyssey. Whitecaps, blue water,…
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Making Good Money… in a Shadow Career
Chapter nine in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101. Once you’ve read The Writer’s Market and come to terms with the good sides…
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Regular Writing Assignments — The Dark and The Light
Chapter eight in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101. Once the rejections slow down and you’ve found a bit of success (or, possibly,…
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Any Money Makes a Professional Writer
Chapter seven in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101. People will tell you don’t quit your day job. Other people say do what…
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Feeling Rejected: Slips
Chapter six in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101. I grew fascinated in this time with rejection slips — with feeling rejected and…
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From Daydreams to Written Dreams
Chapter five in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101. I have a hard time with conversations. Anyone who has spent any amount of…
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Where and How to Sell What You Write
Chapter four in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101. When I went to college, I found myself loaded down with logic and rhetoric…
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Does Fiction Lie? — The Liar’s Club
Chapter three in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101. Before I discovered poetry on my own, I had told stories to friends and…
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The Gateway Drug: Poetry
Chapter two in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101. Let me tell you the way of things: I fell into this gig.…
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Art Business Logic Sold Me on Self-Publishing :: Intro and Chapters
or Book and Art Business 101: How the Good Business Sense of Self-Publishing Finally Won Me Over I am not one to easily say I was wrong, but, my friends, I was terribly, horribly wrong. Wrong for the past ten years or more concerning a very important part of the publishing industry and art business.…
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Hipster Bank in Dickens
I think I just found the first hipster bank in Dickens’s Tale of Two Cities :: Tellson’s Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. It was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious. It was an old-fashioned place, moreover, in the moral attribute that…
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The Revitalization Movement in the Urban Greco-Roman World
Christianity served as a revitalization movement that arose in response to the misery, chaos, fear, and brutality of life in the urban Greco-Roman world. … Christianity revitalized life in cities by providing new norms and new kinds of social relationships able to cope with many urgent urban problems. To cities filled with the homeless and…