Publishing Your Book on Kindle Vella

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Remember the good old days when novels were serialized in newspapers and magazines? No? That was probably before your time. Serialization was popular in the nineteenth century but fell out of fashion after the 1930s. Charles Dickens published most of his novels as installments in periodicals before issuing them in … Read More

What WAG Means to Me

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A few months ago, I was asked to be the next president of the Writers Alliance of Gainesville (WAG). This is not only an honor, but a tremendous responsibility. Why did I accept? Because WAG has done so much for me. I don’t remember how I learned about WAG—probably from … Read More

Discovering Stories on the Back Roads

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Do you need ideas for stories? Venture out of your comfort zone. Traveling on the back roads, I’ve found a wealth of stories begging to be told. My life changed in August, 1999, on my way home from a family reunion in Arkansas. Interstate 20 was under construction. Everywhere. After … Read More

What $36 Gets You!

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A prospective member approached me at one of our monthly meetings. “Are dues $36 a month? Or a year?” “A year,” I told her. At only $3 a month, she must have thought she was getting quite a bargain. She was! When WAG was founded in 2009, the dues were … Read More