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Star Wars Franchise Sold . . .

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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

Coming Up Soon . . .

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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

8 Strange Rituals . . .

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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