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Stacked Odds? You don't need an agent and a publishing deal to call yourself an author anymore — Southwest Airlines Spirit By Beth Mayall

March 2005 — International sales trainer and certified management consultant Dr. Jeff Magee had an idea for a book. In fact, he had several. First, he went the traditional route and signed with two well-known royalty publishers. Unhappy with the lack of control he had over his projects, he produced his next book himself. “The ability to have complete control over the book process was very educational, and with aggressive marketing, extremely lucrative,” says Magee. Read More

Volume 12, Issue 4 — On a Wednesday, Jim Whiddon, a certified financial planner, proudly mailed a copy of his new book to a contact on his mailing list. The following Monday, he got a call from this new prospect who informed him that after reading There for the Taking: The Methods of Wall Street Exposed and How to Create Wealth Without Worry, he was anxious to meet him and hand over his million dollar account. Read More

The well-groomed, professional gentleman in the back of the room raised his hand and asked, “Is a literary agent someone who gets you jobs?” I was astounded. Even though this was the first time to teach my publishing class, I assumed that everyone knew that literary agents represent books to royalty houses in exchange for a percentage of the author's royalty. Even though I was teaching a beginner's Publishing 101 class, that was the first time that I actually realized how little most people understand about this elusive thing called book publishing. Read More

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It’s past midnight in New York City, and I’m running out of time to find a woman wearing red high-heeled shoes. I’ve already been in a half-dozen bars and clubs from lower Manhattan to the upper West Side. But so far there’s nary a ruby spike in sight.

It seems there's a new dog book out every 20 seconds. Some are better than others, of course. Just like their subjects.

But Jeanette Wright's book , Men Are Dogs, intrigues me because she claims we can get to know the men in our lives better by their breed.

Not the breed they own. The breed they are. Read More

Disorder Victim Tells Her Story — North Shore News by Sue Carr

To the outside world, Holly Whalen seemed to have it all.

As a certified management accountant, Whalen had worked for Fortune 1000 companies in the high technology sector for the past 14 years. By the age of 30, she had traveled the world, earned a professional degree, and was earning a six-figure income.

But for 20 years she had also been hiding a severe eating disorder from her friends, and her family, and even her husband. Read More

New book embraces story of creation through color — Plano Morning News by Linda Stewart Ball

June 9, 2001 — In the beginning, as in three or four summers ago, there was vacation Bible school.

And it was pretty good. But to help make it better, the Rev. Margie McNeir, an associate pastor at Christ United Methodist Church in Plano, paraphrased a few Bible Stories for the teachers to use. Read More

Conversations with George Bush: Beyond Polls and Partisanship — Real Life in the USA — PW Forecasts Publishers Weekly, Martha Boone Mattia. Brown Books

It turns out there are many more George Bushes than those who have occupied the White House. Texas-based journalist Mattia combed the directories, found a cross-country demographic cross-section of 25 men named George Bush and set out to learn their life stories, what makes them happy and, along the way, their thoughts on the state of the union. Read More

October 2004 — Almost every family has a hidden history. It's buried in envelopes of old snapshots and yellow Kodachrome boxes, packed away in closets or bottom drawers. Year after year it lies there unvisited, unseen—the photo of Grandma feeding her chickens, the fading color slides of that Yellowstone vacation, the home movies of Christmas, 1964. Read More

Praying for the sons of Abraham: Baylor professor grew up knowing both sides of strife — Waco Tribune-Herald by Terri Jo Ryan

Born in Texas , raised in Israel and taught the English language by Arab instructors, Bill Baker is a man in the middle of three cultures. The Baylor University professor of Arabic says he is more than just a casual observer of the Middle Ease peace process. Read More

May 21, 1999 — Most of us probably see birds as merely a lovely part of life's scenery. Geri Wissinger used to, too. Then she began working for A and B Animal Clinic, whose practice extended to caring for sick birds. And the avian set began to fascinate her. Read More

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