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Michael Pokocky
Michael Pokocky
Sainte-Adele
Member since: Nov, 2008
Last login: 11/20/2009
Last update : 11/20/2009
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    November 20, 2009

  • The future of print: Follow the money

    November 19, 2009

    • An amazing news announcement from Worldcolor (World Color Press Inc.); world headquarters are ironically in Montreal right near where I live.  Even more ironic is that I knew the founder who gave me my first computer.  We met right here in Ste-Adele where he lived at a coffee shop named Poivre.  Anyway I had to get that personal story in and on that note I will proceed.   If you want to ...
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  • [writers] Why Enid Blyton's greatest creation was herself - Telegraph

    November 16, 2009

    • Blyton, who died aged 71 in 1968 and has sold 600 million books, was a trailblazer. After training as a teacher, she got her first break thanks to Pollock, who worked at the London publishers George Newnes and helped her publish her first stories in 1924. But it was her own ruthless business acumen that helped her become the most popular children’s author of the era. via ...
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  • How I got my groove back as a writer who believes in himself again.

    November 14, 2009

    • I have been on a long journey heading toward being a published writer.  Along the way I got so tangled up in the what if's, the fears, the how to's, the editing, the revision, the state of publishing and countless other worries that I created a lot of anxiety for myself.  I almost quit on myself, which is not what I really wanted.I found a childhood friend who spent a lot of time deconstructing ...
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  • There's money if you got great content

    November 10, 2009

    • Twitter Fav 'Shit My Dad Says' Gets CBS Deal ! http://pop.is/blb via popurls.com  Curation: Well there's more authors, writers, screenplay writers [established or aspiring] entering the game daily. This could have been a problem if the corporate suits did nothing. There was this doom and gloom feeling being spread around the Net about things like print is dead, newspapers are dead, ...
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  • Simply doing my thing to get

    Simply doing my thing to get to the facts; everyone is all worked up into a tither and are discouraged and settle for less than what they believe they truly can do. Glad you like it.

  • I read this story and was

    I read this story and was thinking about it. Then forgot about it until I read your post, which is asks the right question.

  • I can relate to your

    I can relate to your wonderful post and it took great courage to write about it, especially since you are an Author.

  • I have a private mentor in

    I have a private mentor in this area and she said,"When you get it you'll know and then when you know you know you don't have to think about things anymore; they'll find you and act on what is being a

  • I read about this in the

    I read about this in the Guardian http://bit.ly/2WtH7F | I liked how you expanded on the story going around.

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A series of sketches by writer Michael Pokocky, with accompanying quotes performed as a narrative by Kev Moore and set to his original music. " Energy Avatar" - The Philosophy Sketches
A video short to introduce Michael Pokocky's new novel One More Day. Created by Kev Moore and Miki - original music by Kev Moore.YouTube - One More Day booktrailer

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