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  Peek into the future! Wait just a bit. Coming up some time this year is the publication of  No Pennies to Pinch  by Marsha Franklin.  Raising a family happily and healthily while careening from one financial crisis to another, Marsha shares woes and laughs -- and lots of everyday financial advice of the kind really needed and not typically given by financial advisors. Funny, too!  Watch for upcoming excerpts. For more posts about Marsha Franklin amd her books, click  HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow  MSI Press  on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with  MSI Press LLC ? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Planning on self-publishing and don't know where to start? Our  author au pair  services will mentor you through the process. Interested in receiving a free copy of this or any MSI Press LLC book  in exchange for  revie...

  Peek into the future! Wait just a bit. Coming up some time this year is the publication of  No Pennies to Pinch  by Marsha Franklin.  Raising a family happily and healthily while careening from one financial crisis to another, Marsha shares woes and laughs -- and lots of everyday financial advice of the kind really needed and not typically given by financial advisors. Funny, too!  Watch for upcoming excerpts. For more posts about Marsha Franklin amd her books, click  HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow  MSI Press  on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with  MSI Press LLC ? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Planning on self-publishing and don't know where to start? Our  author au pair  services will mentor you through the process. Interested in receiving a free copy of this or any MSI Press LLC book  in exchange for  revie...

  Peek into the future! Wait just a bit. Coming up some time this year is the publication of  No Pennies to Pinch  by Marsha Franklin.  Raising a family happily and healthily while careening from one financial crisis to another, Marsha shares woes and laughs -- and lots of everyday financial advice of the kind really needed and not typically given by financial advisors. Funny, too!  Watch for upcoming excerpts. For more posts about Marsha Franklin amd her books, click  HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow  MSI Press  on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with  MSI Press LLC ? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Planning on self-publishing and don't know where to start? Our  author au pair  services will mentor you through the process. Interested in receiving a free copy of this or any MSI Press LLC book  in exchange for  revie...

  Peek into the future! Wait just a bit. Coming up some time this year is the publication of  No Pennies to Pinch  by Marsha Franklin.  Raising a family happily and healthily while careening from one financial crisis to another, Marsha shares woes and laughs -- and lots of everyday financial advice of the kind really needed and not typically given by financial advisors. Funny, too!  Watch for upcoming excerpts. For more posts about Marsha Franklin amd her books, click HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow  MSI Press  on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with  MSI Press LLC ? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Planning on self-publishing and don't know where to start? Our  author au pair  services will mentor you through the process. Interested in receiving a free copy of this or any MSI Press LLC book  in exchange for  reviewing ...

  When Marsha Franklin chose the title No Pennies to Pinch for a forthcoming book that we do still plan to publish, she was playing with metaphor: scarcity, thrift, and the emotional weight of small things. But now, the metaphor is literal. As of November 2025, the U.S. Mint has stopped producing pennies. The coin that once bore Lincoln’s profile and anchored idioms like “a penny for your thoughts” is slipping into history. 🌍 Global Echoes: When Small Coins Disappear We’re not the first. Other countries have retired their lowest-denomination coins: Canada phased out its penny in 2013, adopting “symmetric rounding” for cash transactions. Australia removed 1- and 2-cent coins in 1992; New Zealand followed in 1990 and later dropped its 5-cent coin. Sweden began eliminating öre coins in the 1970s, embracing digital payments early. The Bahamas , Belgium , and Finland have also discontinued small coins, citing inflation and production costs. In each case, the disappearance ...

  It is Tuesday. 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.  This week's conversation addresses the benefits of "twinning" as a book writing and publishing option. Twinning refers to when a new book resembles an older book. MSI Press has several such twins in its book collection. Let's look at ways twinning at help with book sales -- and what are the various models for twinning, noting upfront that twinning is not the same as producing a series since, with twinning, the books are by different authors. Here are some twinning options among MSI Press books. Using other (successful) books as models for format In this case, an author follows the formatting (or approach) of another author....