Archive for the 'Universe Of Publishing' Category

Top Ten Ways to Improve Your Communication Skills

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

1) Listen without judgment. The key to good communication is listening well. Save your judging for later after you have heard and understood what was said.
2) Listen with the willingness to be swayed to the other person’s opinion. No obligation to actually being swayed, but stay open to the option.
3) Listen without thinking about what [...]

Free Nursery Stock Offering For Huntingdon Valley, PA Residents

Friday, December 26th, 2008

We will be making a special offering for residents Huntingdon Valley Pa. this next week. The only way to recieve it is thru our email alert. See below what we recently offered:
This is a copy of my most recent email newsletter. This was an overwhelming success. You must be signed up to our email letter [...]

Copyright: The 4 Can’t Miss Keys

Thursday, December 25th, 2008

Copyright is the writer’s security blanket. It just makes you feel better to know your words are protected. I once knew a writer who was so scared his work would be stolen, he never sent it anywhere. Talk about counterproductive! But if you can understand these four simple copyright keys, you can rest easy and [...]

How to Write a Humorous Article Online

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

Telling a joke, can be easy, but getting your humorous point out there can be difficult. Few sites only put up jokes. But you can find an Online Article Site, which allows you to post your story or humorous article. You will be smart to send in your articles to such a site. I particularly [...]

Novel to Screenplay: The Challenges of Adaptation. Some basic steps when adapting a novel to the scr

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

ADAPTATION 101
Brimming with confidence, you’ve just signed the check purchasing the rights to adapt John Doe’s fabulous, but little known novel, Lawrence of Monrovia, to screenplay form. Suddenly, panic sets in. “What was I thinking? How the devil am I going to convert this 400-page novel to a 110-page screenplay?”
The answer is: “The same way [...]

Write Before You Look

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

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However, please do not charge for it. Please DO NOT include it in CD compilations, paid-subscription sites [...]

What Publications Should Look for in a Technology Writer

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

What to look for in a technology writer.
A good technology writer has a good portfolio. The writer you want will have samples that parallel the content you’re looking for. A good portfolio sample can be found at http://www.GeerCom.com/samples.html.
A good technology writer is a good investigator. A professional technology writer takes time to get to know [...]

Styles of Manuscript Editing

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

When you are correcting or making changes in a book manuscript, what you are doing is editing that manuscript. I’ve been in the business of editing would-be books for over the past twenty-five years, and I’ve helped many a first-time author put his or her book together in a way that made it more readable, [...]

Writing the Five Essentials

Monday, December 8th, 2008

The five essential questions to be answered in your article are WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHY and WHEN.
The five Ws must be considered carefully when you are gathering your research, plus using the five Ws is an excellent way to organise your material.
Here is an example of two very effective lines:
Barb Clews, author, has sold the [...]

What Makes A Great Presenter?

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Every day millions of people around the world make a presentation. Yet most of us who have been to meetings know that very few of those people are truly great. At each meeting there is usually only one person who stands out head and shoulders above the rest as someone who really connects with us [...]