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  • Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing,  On Writing,  publishing

    Killing the Top Ten Sacred Cows of Publishing: #4… You Need an Agent to Sell a Book

    September 14, 2013 /

    This series of posts will turn into a book called Killing the Top Ten Sacred Cows of Publishing later this fall with an introduction. And then it will be followed by a book called Killing the Top Ten Sacred Cows of Indie Publishing. But first I wanted to put each myth or “Sacred Cow” up here again as I promised. This fourth Sacred Cow article (topic) was published here in 2009. Wow, has the world changed since 2009. Indie publishing was only a glimmer then and traditional publishing was turning ugly, so ugly that at that point, I was about ready to walk away completely and go back to playing…

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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over 200 novels and hundreds of short stories.

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Class #24… March 7th … Writing into the Dark
Class #25… March 7th … Teams in Fiction
Class #26…March 8th … Depth in Writing
Class #27…March 8th … Applied Depth
Class #28… March 8th …Killing Critical Voice
Class #29… March 8th …Reaching Pulp Speed
Class #30… March 8th …Advanced Depth

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