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Writing Readers 524 books / 2969 members / 3279 posts If you're an aspiring or successful writer, this is the group for you. Suggest your favorite books on the craft, discuss past and present challenges, and share some nurture with a growing community of other online-savvy, "writing readers". Welcome!

Note: If you want to promote a book or writing website on which you publish, please use the "Shameless Self-Promotion" discussion thread. In order to keep this from becoming a chaotic open bazaar of single-shot marketing, we are deleting book notices, reviews, etc. from other threads and directing all authors to the "Shameless Self-Promotion" thread. Thank you for understanding.

Ask and Tell for Writers 28 books / 67 members / 86 posts This group is for writers (or readers) to ask other writers about their process, how they got started, publishing tips, etc. Anything and everything is up for grabs. Or, if you have a question about something you're doing in your own writing and want some writerly feedback, this is the place for that too. Ask and tell!

Word Whimsy 7 books / 1 members / 0 posts

Print-On-Demand Publishing 23 books / 26 members / 9 posts Hello Everyone:

As a former employee of a Print-On-Demand publisher (iUniverse), I started this group to provide a forum for those considering POD as a publishing option. Generally speaking, I consider POD to be an effective option for first-time authors with a variety of different goals. Certainly, there are those that disagree for a number of reasons.

It is important to go into the process with your eyes wide open. Once your book is published, there is still a ton of work to do from a marketing standpoint. As is the case with most forms of publishing, the marketing of the book falls largely to the author. Simply publishing the book and getting it on Amazon and other sites will not guarantee a single sale.

I'd love to hear about author success stories on this forum. How did you market your book? What worked for you and what didn't? While non-fiction books are the bread and butter of POD publishers (and most traditional publishers as well), marketing fiction is where the real challenge lies.

Some of my favorite POD books include The Death of Milly Mahoney by Susanne Severeid, Rated F by Todd Noker and Tut by Robin Martin Berard. I think they all have the potential to be picked up by traditional publishers. Some authors have already made the jump. Those include Jennifer Colt, Brian Wiprud and Laurie Notaro.

NaNoWriMo 7 books / 6 members / 5 posts Books for use as writing prompts and reference for those participating in NaNoWriMo.

National Novel Writing Month
November 1st - 30th
http://www.nanowrimo.org

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NaNoWriMo of Shelfari 82 books / 201 members / 661 posts NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. To be specific, it starts November 1st and ends at Midnight on the 30th. Writing a 50,000 or roughly 179 page novel in November.

The push is on. From now until November we will have to tighten up the gaps in our outlines. One month--50,000 words. Insane! Yes we are, and thanks for noticing! Keep the fire alive. The countdown to November is 5 months and counting...

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No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days

by Chris Baty

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