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Karen Dionne's Blog
September 9, 2009
- Backspace is the online writer's organization I co-founded 5 years ago.Check out this sneak preview from the October Writer's Digest Magazine. What a fabulous two-page spread! Be sure to pick up a copy when the magazine hits the newsstands next week! You can also read the full interview on Writer's Digest's website.
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September 3, 2009
August 15, 2009
- If so, check out the Backspace Agent-Author Seminar, November 5 & 6, in New York City - two days of panels, workshops, and small-group meetings with ONLY literary agents on the program - Janet Reid, Colleen Lindsay, Paige Wheeler, Scott Hoffman, Jeff Kleinman, Holly Root, Miriam Kriss, and many more - over 20 in all. Registration is limited to 120. Early registration discount through ...
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May 8, 2009
- Backspace is pleased to announce that New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder (POWER PLAY, KILLER INSTINCT, COMPANY MAN) has joined the 2009 Backspace Writers Conference faculty and will present the discussion, "What I Know Now That I Wish I Knew When I Was Starting Out." Joe's an accomplished author and a fabulous speaker, and we're thrilled and honored to have him! Other ...
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April 9, 2009
- There's some talk here and there on the Web about Michael Crichton's two posthumous novels, and whether or not their publication is what he would have wanted. That got me thinking about what might happen to my intellectual property after I pass away, and the terrific gift that author Neil Gaiman gave to writers a few years ago - a simple will designed for writers to help us make sure our ...
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February 11, 2009
- According to a survey commissioned last spring by Random House Inc., 28 percent of Americans purchase between 11 and 20 books every year. The figure is slightly higher for Canadians: roughly one-third (34%) report buying themselves at least one book per month. 36% of non-reading Canadians said they had bought a book as a gift during the previous year. Not bad for an industry rocked by declining ...
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September 30, 2008
- As co-founder of Backspace, an Internet-based writers organization with hundreds of members in a dozen countries, I knew only a handful of friends would be able to attend my book launch no matter where it was held. So I decided to recreate the traditional launch party experience on the Web. Entertainment for the October 1-3, 2008 event includes video welcomes from David Morrell, Gayle Lynds, ...
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September 5, 2008
- What a fabulous innovation, and just in time for me to plan a few drop-in signings on my travels from Detroit to Boston and back next month! I did a preliminary search by plugging in "Pennsylvania," and this looks great - a huge list of bookstores and their locations and contact info popped up! Once we decide on our driving route, I can pick out what bookstores I want to stop at along ...
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August 26, 2008
- Authors post them on their websites. They upload them to Google Video and YouTube. If they’re particularly savvy, they search out display sites like Book Screening and Preview the Book. Even websites that aren’t primarily intended to showcase trailers like the Backspace homepages have a section where users can upload them. The jury’s still out as to whether or not book trailers help sell ...
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July 31, 2008
- “Writers Helping Writers” is the unofficial slogan of the Internet-based writers organization I co-founded four years ago called Backspace. It’s a good tagline, because Backspace members are an extraordinarily supportive group. Besides answering questions at the discussion forums, they turn each others’ books face-out at bookstores, blog about them, buy them as gifts, recommend them to ...
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July 16, 2008
June 8, 2008
- A few months before the release of my debut thriller, FREEZING POINT, I decided I was going to use the Internet to promote my novel as much as possible.From talking to other writers, I knew there were plenty of promotional opportunities available - blog tours, online book clubs, book review sites, video sharing, and social network sites where people who might be interested in the topic of my book ...
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May 18, 2008
- "We keep hearing this phrase, 'What's the platform?' . . . Well, what it is is this: What does the author bring to the table? Talent is not enough. The number of slots open to fiction on a publisher's list is being reduced all the time." -- Literary agent Nat Sobel, quoted in Poets and Writers Magazine Three years ago, when then-editor Marcela Landres visited the Backspace discussion ...
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February 13, 2008
- So what if you’re not a scientist? you may be thinking. Hundreds of thousands of people could make the same claim: lawyers, social workers, pastry chefs; stockbrokers, carpenters, newspaper reporters; race car drivers, kindergarten teachers, and on and on.But I write science thrillers. My debut novel FREEZING POINT, which Berkley Books will be publishing in October ‘08, is about a solar ...
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January 30, 2008
- I want to thank Red Room authors on behalf of Patry Francis for the support so many of you gave by helping to spread the word about her novel as part of THE LIAR'S DIARY Blog Day yesterday. Patry is completely overwhelmed, and deeply grateful. Her agent said yesterday "was one of the most rewarding days --if not the most rewarding day-- I've had in publishing..." 385 bloggers (69 of ...
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