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Posts Tagged professionalism

Good parts and bad parts

On March 13, 2019   /   Writing  
Tags: career, process, professionalism

Becoming a professional fiction writer is a lot of work. A lot.

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Behaving professionally, Part II – Conventions

On August 25, 2013   /   General, Writing  
Tags: conventions, professionalism, the biz

OK, the RSS feed is not working; I am also having trouble importing paragraph breaks in the new blog. So this is going on the old blog and we’ll work on fixing the new one when my webmaster gets back next week. One of the things most

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Behaving professionally Part 1: Autographings

On August 21, 2013   /   Writing  
Tags: professionalism, publicity and promotion, the biz

Back in my very young and salad days, when I was around 15-16, the original Star Trek series was the hot new thing on TV and my parents took me to see Leonard Nimoy in a summer-season play at the Goodman Theater in Chicago. After the play,

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    Thirteenth Child
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    Across the Great Barrier
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    The Far West
    The discoveries that Eff and her friends made out in settlement territory didn’t...

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