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The brilliance of book reviews

By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on August 19th, 2010

A book review is worth gold, wherever it appears, even if it only gets in front of a handful of people. Because the moment someone places a review, even if only one other person reads it and is tempted to buy the book, that makes one more sale and compensates for the cost of that one you ‘gave away’. [...]

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August 19th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: books, promotion & publicity, tips, writing | 8 comments
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Publisher needs forward-thinking editors

By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on September 17th, 2008

Debbie Jenkins from www.bookshaker.com has currently got three projects
in the pipeline that require the skills of talented, and forward-thinking, editors.

If you’ve heard of Book Shaker before then you’ll also know that they pay
unprecedented royalties to their authors. The way they can afford to pay
such big royalties is by offering professional editors a stake [...]

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September 17th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: books, inspiration, people & cool connections, writing | Leave a comment
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Lose your fear of networking

By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on June 19th, 2008

Ljiljana came to my party last week and has agree to let me post her comment here. I think it has some useful lessons for those of us who fear networking ..

I was about to give up. I was thinking about writing an email saying that I was sorry but I couldn’t make it and [...]

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June 19th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: books, expatriate stuff, inspiration, promotion & publicity, websites | One comment