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This week's blog post is the next in the series of book back stories and is the story behind Publishing for Smarties: Finding a Publisher by BL Ham. From the author -  The story behind this book is quite short and easy -- as was writing the book. The topic was one I presented on frequently at workshops for authors. One day, I decided to turn the slide deck into a book. Voila! The book you see here. The plan was to have other books in the series. Indeed, they will appear in due course -- topics such as reading your proposed contract, and more.  Paperback copies of this book can be purchased at the  MSI Press webstore   at 25% discount with coupon code FF25. Currently, it is on sale at a very deep discount. For more posts about this book, click HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC monthly newsletter (recent releases, sales/discounts, awards, reviews, Amazon top 100 list, author advice, and more -- stay up to date)   Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Inter

  The following excerpt comes from  Practices That Work  (Thomas Garza). Introduction Are you a new or future author? Confused by all the choices  in the publishing business? Afraid of being ripped off? (It  happens all too frequently!) Not sure how to take the first step?  Not even sure how you want your “offspring” (i.e. your manuscript)  to be birthed (i.e. published)? This book is meant for  you. It is not another 500-page reference book about a little  bit of everything associated with publishing. There are enough  books like that; one more is not needed. That said, however,  you should certainly add several of those to your resource collection.  At the very least, you should read Writer’s Market   and subscribe to Writer’s Digest . (Google both; you will find  them. Writer’s Market is also available at most public libraries.) This book, unlike most of the books out there on publishing,  looks at publishing from the combined point of need of  the new author and point of view of t

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