My Interests That May Interest You!

Don’t Burn Your Books-Print Is Here to Stay – By Nicholas Carr – The Wall Street Journal – http://goo.gl/fberJ

Nine Practices to Help you Say No – By Peter Bregman – HBR – http://goo.gl/xLclP

Keep Dreaming . . . Even When They Think You’re Nuts – By Jenny Price – For Jeff Goins – http://goo.gl/a7fNf

Book Design Quick Tips for Self-Publishers – By Joel Friedlander – http://goo.gl/SvxW6

Parts of Earth Are Missing Gravity – By Kris Sanchez – For UberFacts – http://goo.gl/UTQtI

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Things of Interest

Amazon reveals its top-selling books of 2012 – By TNW – http://goo.gl/jeXGO

Wikipedia is asking for donations during its year-end fundraiser – By Jimmy Wales – For Wikipedia – https://donate.wikimedia.org

Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award – Win a publishing contract - http://goo.gl/eWv2u

Ken Follett and Margaret Maron Named Grand Masters by Mystery Writers of America – By Writer’s Blog – http://goo.gl/PrIzq

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Hollywood’s 25 Most Powerful Authors – By The Hollywood Reporter – http://goo.gl/6kMZT

Archway Publishing – Simon & Schuster Adds a Self-Publishing Division – by Victoria Strauss – for Writer Beware – http://goo.gl/Fbuph

The Secret to Becoming an Overnight Success – by James – for Men with Pens – http://goo.gl/QzOpY

Anna Karenina’s Couture – By Laura Kane – The Record.com – http://goo.gl/83SdP

Quote(s) of the Day:

“Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.”  - Hannah More

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Alandra CL

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Yes, We Do Judge a Book By Its Cover – By Jeremy Gardiner – for Jeff Goins – http://goo.gl/AOpuy

Learn to be Charismatic – by Scott Edinger – for Harvard Business Review – http://goo.gl/wQg0d

Oscar-winner Michael Arndt To Pen “Star Wars Episode VII” – By Dominic Patten – for deadline – http://goo.gl/BcG8v

Mustering the Courage to Turn Down a Publishing Contract – By Kfir Luzzatto – for Writer Beware – http://goo.gl/8jOfm

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Angry Birds Star Wars announced – by Keith Stuart – for the guardian UK - http://goo.gl/W6pJz

Angry Birds Star Wars Breaks New Rovio Records – By Raymond Wong – for BGR - http://goo.gl/TpBVy

At the High End, Reaching a Mass Market – by Alessandro Di Fiore – for Harvard Business Review – http://goo.gl/c2EuI

Authors Guild Statement on Penguin-Random House Merger – by Victoria Strauss – for Writer Beware – http://goo.gl/YcKpv

Marijuana Is Legal In Colorado! – By Uberfacts – By Robert Smedley – http://goo.gl/Pik4f

Beware The False Compliments That Are Killing Your Writing – http://goo.gl/8zJhG

Quote(s) of the Day:

“It isn’t the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it’s how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.” – Pema Chodron

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George Lucas has sold Lucasfilms Studios — and the Star Wars franchise therein — to Disney for $4.5-billion. – By Jen Gerson

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/10/31/jen-gerson-star-wars-sale-offers-hope-for-geeks-and-maybe-even-girls-everywhere/

Giving James Bond a new aura – By Sandeep Bamzai

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2225400/Giving-James-Bond-new-aura.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Penguin, Random House publishing merger finalized – By The Associated Press

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/10/29/penguin-random-house.html

Alert: America’s Next Author Contest – By Victoria Strauss -

For – Writer Beware – http://goo.gl/aZnSd

Quote(s) of the Day:

“A promise made is a debt unpaid. ”  - Robert Service

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Coming up soon – National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) – http://goo.gl/J05l

How to Respond to Negativity – By Peter Bregman – Harvard Business Review – http://goo.gl/vfX3Y

How to Become a Writer – By writetodone – http://goo.gl/Uk5YE

How to Become an Exceptional Writer – By Demian Farnworth – copyblogger – http://goo.gl/YK8wS

How Amazon Squeezes Writers to Make You Richer – By Nathan Alderman - http://goo.gl/zSJnj

Less-Confident People Are More Successful – by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic – Harvard Business Review – http://goo.gl/j7F9W

Rights vs. Copyright – By Victoria Strauss – Writer Beware – http://goo.gl/yb3dz

Your E-Book Is Reading You – By Alexandra Alter – The Wall Street Journal – http://goo.gl/m8Yg2

4 Quick Tips for Authors to Get Website Traffic Fast! – By Lynnette Phillips – For The Book Designer - http://goo.gl/jnYqN

Unleash Your Writing With This Trick From the Movies – By Write to Done – http://goo.gl/MiSrp

The Essential Guide to (Not) Responding to Critics – By Jeff Goins – http://goo.gl/cfguL

Are the Rules of Engagement for Serious Novels Changing?  By Warren Adler – Huffington Post – http://goo.gl/lFkCS

Quote(s) of the Day:

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.” – Mark Twain

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8 Strange Rituals of Productive Writers – By Kelton Reid – for Copyblogger – http://goo.gl/sJNrP

5 Ways to Make Your Novel Inescapable – by Victoria Mixon – http://goo.gl/c8ndH

12 Guidelines for Deciding When to Persist, When to Quit – by Rosabeth Moss Kanter – for Harvard Business Review – http://goo.gl/vfQlb

Is Your Author Website Doing Its Job? 6 Things to Check – By Laura Pepper Wu – for Jane Friedman – http://goo.gl/stwQX

Quote(s) of the Day:

“A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”  - William Penn

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OMG Facts – PSA: Every year, approximately 5 to 7 million animals enter animal shelter nationwide, and approximately 3 to 4 million are euthanized simply because they’re not adopted – http://goo.gl/A3jgX

Windows 8 revolutionizes Microsoft OS, but consumers may balk – By Peter Svensson, AP – The Vancouver Sun – http://goo.gl/vKq9P

Dear Agent  – Write the Letter That Sells Your Book – By Nicola Morgan – for Writer Beware – http://goo.gl/LVcju

5 Colorful and Unique Ways to Decorate Your Halloween Pumpkings – by Charley Cameron – for inhabitat – http://goo.gl/1R6Wd

The 25 best travel apps – by Helena Lee – for The Telegraph – http://goo.gl/2zvjf

Quote(s) of the Day:

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone.

This is the way to success. ” - Swami Vivekananda

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For Your Information:

The Dysfunctional Guide to Blogging Success – by Demian Farnworth – for copyblogger – http://goo.gl/H51HO

5 Facts About Publishing That Could Change Your Writing Career – By Jeff Goins – http://goo.gl/kAqG4

5 Ways for Writers to Blast Through Self-Doubt – by write to done – http://goo.gl/IGmhz

Exploding the Perfect Writer Myth – by Anna Elliott – for Writer Unboxed - http://goo.gl/U3yMt

The Future of the Novel – by Warren Adler – for Huffington Post – http://goo.gl/ozMmo

Quote(s) of the Day:

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.”  - Norman Vincent Peale

Special Tribute:

One of the most spectacular night-sky shows will kick into high gear this weekend when the Orionid meteor shower peaks early in the morning on Oct. 20. It will continue to dazzle until just before dawn on the 21st. . .  http://goo.gl/HmbJn

Book Release:

A Memory of Light - Robert Jordan (Author), Brandon Sanderson (Author) - Release Date: Jan 8 2013 - http://goo.gl/TYHW6

Since 1990, when Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time® burst on the world with its first book, The Eye of the World, readers have been anticipating the final scenes of this extraordinary saga, which has sold over forty million copies in over thirty-two languages.

When Robert Jordan died in 2007, all feared that these concluding scenes would never be written. But working from notes and partials left by Jordan, established fantasy writer Brandon Sanderson stepped in to complete the masterwork. With The Gathering Storm (Book 12) and Towers of Midnight (Book 13) behind him, both of which were # 1 New York Times hardcover bestsellers, Sanderson now re-creates the vision that Robert Jordan left behind.

Edited by Jordan’s widow, who edited all of Jordan’s books, A Memory of Light will delight, enthrall, and deeply satisfy all of Jordan’s legions of readers.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass.
What was, what will be, and what is,
May yet fall under the Shadow.
Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.

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