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Nick Russell on November 10th, 2011

I wrote my mystery novel Big Lake back in 1998, and the only people I showed it to were my secretary and my wife, who both encouraged me to publish it. But even though I had made my living as a newspaper editor and publisher, and had done some magazine work from time to time, [...]

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Nick Russell on May 22nd, 2011

As I wrote in my last blog post, The Rules Have Changed, I am taking some first steps into e-book publishing, and I will be sharing my progress in blog posts here. I’ve spent a lot of time reading and researching publishing my books for the Amazon Kindle recently, since Amazon is responsible for the [...]

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Nick Russell on May 16th, 2011

I had a conversation recently with a young man who complained that agents, editors, and publishers won’t give him a break. He said he has sent his autobiography to “at least” six or seven agents and two different large publishing houses, and has never even received the courtesy of a reply. I asked him if [...]

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