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Print: $7.99 Download: $3.99 The Pursuit of Publishing outlines the kinds of book publishing, from commercial publishing through subsidy, vanity, and self-publishing. It summarizes what an aspiring author should know in order to ask the right questions. It is a concise starting point plus an annotated list of key resources for writers seeking publication. The author is a writer, editor, consultant, and independent publisher. He is a board member of Northern California Publishers & Authors and of the Sacramento Branch of the California Writers Club. CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The writer’s dilemma 3. How to pursue commercial publication 4. Self-publishing 5. Subsidy and vanity publishing 6. Comments and examples 7. Sources and resources Basic homework Hit the books Magazines for writers Trade periodicals and review venues Writers’ organizations Writers’ conferences, workshops, and contests; plus pages for your own notes.
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Print: $9.99 Download: $2.99 This informal essay collection focuses on life in the neighborhood, thoughts on squirrels and broken garage doors, and random observations ranging from “Bad Banks” to Thanksgiving turkeys, unending road construction, and the looming threat of zombies.
Ken Umbach has been accused of never having an unexpressed thought. The proof is in this book.
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Print: $9.99 Download: $1.99 Short stories and a complete novella. Gritty and streetwise, for mature readers. Adult language and situations.
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Print: $15.95 Anthology of mystery stories by Sacramento area writers who are members of Capitol Crimes, the Sacramento Chapter of Sisters in Crime. Edited by Kathleen L. Asay and Patricia E. Canterbury. Foreword by Robin Burcell. Introduction by Gabrielle Guedet. This unique story collection is a treat for Northern California residents, as it showcases area writers and settings. Little might you have suspected what devious minds reside in the greater Sacramento writing community! The book also serves as an example that other writing groups and organizations might want to follow in showcasing their own local talent, as the project was conceived and developed within the community (read the introduction for how that came about). Mystery readers from other areas are going to have fun with this original collection as well, drawing as it does on the talent of both established and aspiring mystery writers, under the watchful eye of editors Asay and Canterbury.
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Print: $15.00 Download: $8.00 Wyla will cast a spell on you! This charming fantasy for the young-at-heart of any age features good witches and bad witches, good wizards and bad wizards, and adventures in the tidy little village of Myrtle Marsh, six miles east of Flora Forest, and in mysterious more-distant realms. Wyla's neighbors in Myrtle Marsh do not suspect that she is a witch -- a GOOD witch it must be understood! -- nor the challenges faced by Wyla and her friends as cats are strangely disappearing, recruited into a threatening force that Wyla and her good companions must overcome. Wyla the Witch is great fun for readers and makes a great read-aloud, with its deft use of language and well-drawn imagery. (The book's cover image depicts Wyla's tidy little house in the tidy little village of Myrtle Marsh.)
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Print: $15.00 Download: $7.50 Mike Doyle sets out to reopen a long-closed mine in California's Gold Country, with results that bring disaster to the town, inflame hatreds, and turn neighbors against one another. Inspired by a true event, this novel illuminates what happens when ambition sets off unexpected events. The Lostcreek Legacy will appeal to everyone who has been in California's Mother Lode Country, has seen its isolated towns, and who enjoys a story of people facing challenges in life and in love in a distinctive and historical setting.
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Print: $15.00 Chuck Myer is an urban planner, freelance writer, playwright, consultant to arts, government, and religious organizations, and an actor and musician. He is described by many as a "Renaissance Man.” Melanoma Melodrama is Chuck’s graceful and courageous narrative of his battle with cancer. You will learn about a potentially fatal misdiagnosis doctors commonly make for malignant melanoma, about the course of the disease, and about available treatments as reflected in the author's own experience. Most importantly, you will come to understand from this first-person view how vital it is to face the diagnosis resolutely and assertively, and to prepare for the difficulties that accompany treatments for the disease. Author Chuck Myer writes, "I wish to tell my story, in the simple hope that it will help a future melanoma patient grapple with the sudden awful realities brought on by a seemingly benign spot on one’s skin." UPDATE: Chuck Myer passed away on Saturday, September 6, 2008.
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Download: $8.00 Chuck Myer is an urban planner, freelance writer, playwright, consultant to arts, government, and religious organizations, and an actor and musician. He is described by many as a "Renaissance Man.” Melanoma Melodrama is Chuck’s graceful and courageous narrative of his battle with cancer. You will learn about a potentially fatal misdiagnosis doctors commonly make for malignant melanoma, about the course of the disease, and about available treatments as reflected in the author's own experience. Most importantly, you will come to understand from this first-person view how vital it is to face the diagnosis resolutely and assertively, and to prepare for the difficulties that accompany treatments for the disease. Author Chuck Myer writes, "I wish to tell my story, in the simple hope that it will help a future melanoma patient grapple with the sudden awful realities brought on by a seemingly benign spot on one’s skin." [Download edition. A separate print edition is available via www.lulu.com.]
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Print: $9.95 Download: $4.95 This report reviews California’s major public works (infrastructure) growth during the Pat Brown administration, 1959-1967. In that period, California launched and built a significant part of the California Water Project, built and expanded major freeways, and built and enlarged college and university campuses. B/W interior, perfect bound.
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Print: $15.95 Download: $5.00 Harold Frederic's minor classic of American Realism, The Damnation of Theron Ware, is presented here in a new edition.
Born in Utica, New York, in 1856, Harold Frederic was a journalist and writer now best known for his novel Illumination, its title in England, where Frederic lived from 1884 until his death in 1898, the year after Illumination was published. The novel is better known by its American title, The Damnation of Theron Ware.
The novel is in the realist tradition that, with variations, encompasses Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Henry James, and others, and spans the period from the Civil War through the first decade of the twentieth century. The style’s impact was felt long after those years. Hallmarks of the style include central focus on characters, detail, realistic settings, and natural patterns of speech, not heightened or romanticized dialogue.
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Print: $9.95 Herewith is a postmodernist exploration of the phenomenon, a churning, bubbling cauldron of the phenomenon laid out for all to see in its patchy reality. [NOTE: this is a joke, folks, created as a book-design experiment. Buy a copy to utterly befuddle some unsuspecting soul! Leave it where people can find it while you are watching, and enjoy the reaction. Or better yet, be astonished as they leaf through it, cast their eyes quickly over blocks of text, and do not realize that none of it makes a whit of sense. I have seen that myself, and was amazed.]
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