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True Confessions of a Self-Publishing Author

Thu, 28 Nov 2013 14:05:58 +0000

And here’s Part 2 of my talk to the Annapolis Chapter of the Maryland Writer’s Association, in which I get into more of the practical details of self-publishing and marketing one’s books.

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Self-Publishing: What I’ve Learned in the First Two Years, Part 2

Daniel McInerny — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 00:53:38 +0000

Are you thinking about self-publishing your work? Or are you already self-publishing? Is your work fiction or non-fiction? Whatever your answers to these questions, there’s something in this podcast for you as I reveal what I’ve learned in my first two years as a self-publishing author: the 5 brilliant things that I did, and the […]

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Self-Publishing: What I’ve Learned in the First Two Years

Daniel McInerny — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 00:49:08 +0000

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I Picked Myself

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 01:35:13 +0000

Back in March of 2011 when Seth Godin wrote this blog post about one of his favorite themes, “pick yourself,” I had never heard of him. But at that very same point in time I was just getting ready to live his advice. I was just about to embark, along with my tremendously supportive wife […]

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Chasing the Whispering Pinker

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 22:02:31 +0000

On 1 June 1905, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, having completed his first out-and-out comic novel, Love Among the Chickens, prepared to submit the work to a literary agent. But as we read in Robert McCrum’s magnificent Wodehouse: A Life, the role of literary agent was in 1905 “a new profession in the world of books, and […]

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Seeing Things

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:39:10 +0000

“Man’s ability to see is in decline. Those who nowadays concern themselves with culture and education will experience this fact again and again. We do not mean here, of course, the physiological sensitivity of the human eye. We mean the spiritual capacity to perceive the visible reality as it truly is.” –Josef Pieper, “Learning How […]

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The Great American Production Line

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:40:11 +0000

The other day I mentioned the distinction between technological thinking and philosophical thinking, and how our culture in general, and electronic media in particular, are dominated by technological thinking. Now we are seeing that technological thinking is seeping into the creative act of writing books. In a piece today on Page-Turner, the book blog of […]

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Book Publishing Comes Home

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:37:51 +0000

Three acres and a cow. That’s how G.K. Chesterton summed up his understanding of distributism, an economic theory he championed with Hilaire Belloc and others in the early 20th century. It’s a theory still worth thinking about today. Distributism emphasizes private property, and private property as widely distributed (not necessarily re-distributed) as possible. Distributism puts […]

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