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Monday May 21st 2012

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Patient Sues Doctor, Claims He Used Her In A Book

A woman claims in court that a doctor who treated her for drug addiction invaded her privacy by using “her most [Read More]

Is Pinterest the next Facebook?

Ben Silbermann can’t stop staring at the refrigerators. The Pinterest co-founder and CEO and I are standing in [Read More]

Authors Guild op-ed: DoJ antitrust suit against publishers would help Amazon monopoly

Scott Turow, president of the Authors Guild, has written an op ed for Bloomberg in which he reiterates a number of the [Read More]

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Tips & Techniques

25 Things Writers Should Know About Rejection

If you’re a writer, a writer who writes, a writer who puts her work out there, you’re going to face rejection. It’s like saying, “Eventually you’re going to have to fistfight a bear,” except here it’s not one bear but a countless [Read More]

Pansopic Performances (Literary Events)

DC-NABJ/AFTRA Housewarming Party for NSO

Saturday, March 31, 2012 5:30pm until 10:30pm Get in the Game with DC-NABJ & AFTRA Plus Help a Homeless Neighbor! Saturday, March 31, 2012 ‐ 5:30 pm ‐ 10:30 pm Farmington Hills Manor 23666 Orchard Lake Rd, Farmington Hills, MI 48336 RSVP by [Read More]

Free Verse Fridays!: Open Mic with a Purpose

Join us at the inaugural event for this Open Mic series at Thistle Coffee House. Every fifth Friday in 2012, we will celebrate poetry and music and raise needed resources to support literacy efforts. Free Verse Fridays! on March 30 will feature Poet [Read More]

The Power and the Pitfalls of Social Media

Thursday, March 29, 2012 6:30pm until 8:30pm Join David Ashenfelter, Pulitzer Prize-winning Detroit Free Press reporter; Nicolena Little, social media strategist from Identity PR; James Stewart, media attorney with Thompson & Knight and Kevin [Read More]

Features

Publishing Industry Terms and Contracts: Some Resources, and Some Advice

Like many other things to do with publishing, there’s no one definitive source for this kind of information–you have to pull it together from multiple locations. [Read More]

Creating A Compelling Narrative Voice

How does an author of memoir or personal narrative transform a naked self into a compelling voice that tells a story readers can’t put down? This question arises frequently [Read More]

Are e-books changing the structure of plots?

The emergence of search engine optimization (SEO) significantly changed the way that web content is created. Will the digitization of e-books, and the offering of free sample [Read More]

Artist Interview

Venus Mason Theus, Author, Brown Paper Bag

Venus Mason Theus, Author, Brown Paper Bag

Venus Mason-Theus, author of Brown Paper Bag has been busy these days [Read More]

Rosemarie (One Single Rose) Wilson, Author

Rosemarie (One Single Rose) Wilson, Author

Professionally she is known as One Single Rose [Read More]

Delphia Simmons, Publisher, Thrive Detroit

Delphia Simmons, Publisher, Thrive Detroit

How do you start a print publication in today’s [Read More]

Danyell “Soltreu” Garrett, Novelist

Danyell “Soltreu” Garrett, Novelist

I recall from watching early episodes of American [Read More]