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  Today's tip for parents (from two talented teachers) comes from  365 Teacher Secrets for Parents  by Cindy McKinley Alder and Patti Trombly (yes, those are the two talented teachers). #2 T.E.A.M. Work!   Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together. ~Vista M. Kelly   T.E.A.M. is an acronym for Together Everyone Achieves More. Make this a family motto. Obviously, you want to help your child succeed in school. You can do that. So can the rest of the family. In a few days, you will read about specific ways to get the whole family involved in learning. Today, sit down and discuss commitments each family member can make to be aware of and involved in what is going on academically in your child's life. Many projects at home and at school can involve the entire family. Every person can contribute something. Let your child contribute, too, to your endeavors. The more you open up communication for the who...

  1.       It is Tuesday. Time to tall turkey. Monday's madness is over, and Wednesday will take us over the hump, so Tuesday it is--for some serious discussion with authors. Tuesday talks mean to address authors in waiting and self-published authors who would like to go a more traditional route or who would at least like to take their steps with a publisher by their side. Today's topic takes a detour from the usual format of this column in order to share an experience as a warning to other publishers and to authors -- a great get-rich scheme for the company doing the offering and stay-poor scheme for authors, presented as a collaboration. I almost got trapped by this one and there are some takeaways I have learned (and should have known) that could be warning bells for others.   Months ago, I was contacted by ORIM, a legitimate company, offering to collaborate on marketing of some of our e-books. It was a very fair offer: we would put up the e-books, ORIM ...