A few years ago a couple of the biggest summer fairs rebranded themselves. Buffalo Days in Regina became the Queen City Ex and Edmonton’s Klondike Days turned into Capital Ex. Why: The events had “outgrown” the current names that were related to historical times in favor of more upscale perspectives Related parts of the city [...]

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Okay, so print is really old news, as you can see from the infographic at the top of the page. However, there's a twist to the on-going evolution of publishing. Author Earnings calls it the "the law of unintended consequences." I call it awesome news for indie authors!
And you're likely dying to know what happened.

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So let’s go through your “scrapbook” as a mid-career writer, especially if you’re just making that transition from traditional publishing to the Web. You may already have inventoried these things in a CV, or curriculum vitae, that you’ve included along with publisher submissions.

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Travel bloggers have different ideas on what they've done to set themselves apart--meet 14 travel bloggers who share their branding secrets. Travel writing and blogging is an enormous field--Google brings up 399,000,000 results for the term "travel blog" alone. Travel writers who try to cover it "all" end up with a little bit of content to suit a lot of people a little bit of the time. That translates into few regular readers.

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There's one thing that everyone agrees about, which is that publishing is changing--some say for the better, some say for the worse. Most things we hear are from the perspective of publishers. And lots of the statistics we hear are hotly debated depending on who you hear them from. Some say ebooks were a fad, [...]

Ebooks have come a long ways since 2002 when they had just 0.05% of the marketplace! So, it's likely no surprise that the technology behind ebooks has also come a long ways. This infographic introduces you to the three types of ebooks we see today. The good news is that you can create your own [...]

While I've been writing for as long as I can remember, I never joined a gym until a year ago. I probably wouldn't have either except that I have easy access as an Instructional Designer at Saskatchewan Polytechnic in Regina--the first workplace I've had with this perk. And this year, I also got a gym [...]

There was a time when writers didn’t worry about branding. For book authors, branding was up to their publisher’s marketing department. After all, you were what you wrote: a poet, a children’s author, a nonfiction writer. And it wasn’t a lot different for freelance writers—a handful of articles in an assortment of newspapers and magazines [...]

Do you know what you want for your ebook cover or blog banner, but don't have the tools you need? I find that software for special purposes often costs a little more than I'd like to invest--so, my first go-to place is the Web to see what's out here for free. Here are some of [...]

Are you an author who wants to make money on the Internet in 2016? Okay, that was a foolish question. Everyone who dreams of writing a book hopes (at least secretly) to find that magic combination of elements that make for a best seller. Who wouldn't want to be A.G. Riddle, selling over a million [...]
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Robert Sawyer said, "I care deeply and passionately about this genre [science fiction]" during a presentation I attended at the Ontario Library Association Conference. And it was obvious he does. I was, however, more than a little surprised by the passion he exhibits to defend his vision for the SciFi genre--although I have to agree [...]
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Cynthia Good is a leader in Canada's publishing industry, having worked her way from editorial director to president to publisher at Penguin Books Canada--then moving on to Humber College where she was named director emeritus and was awarded the Humber Award for Excellence in Teaching. This fall she gave a guest lecture at the University [...]
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Conferences are great places to network and pick up tips that can make the difference between being good and great at blogging (or any other kind of writing), especially when the speaker is someone who has it mastered like Lou Mongello and the conference is with TBEX (Travel Blog Exchange). Who is Lou Mongello? For [...]
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Conferences are great places to network and pick up tips that can make the difference between being good and great at blogging (or any other kind of content creation), especially when the speaker is someone who has it mastered like Lou Mongello and the conference is with TBEX (Travel Blog Exchange). Who is Lou Mongello? [...]
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Over 20 million passengers around the world take a cruise every year! That may sound like a lot of people until you find out it's only half the number of people who visit Las Vegas annually. And yes, Las Vegas is a must-do, but I also believe that everyone should take a cruise at least [...]
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Saying I don't like writing exercises would be the polite way to phrase my opinion--in a confidential chat I'd be much more likely to say I hate doing them, and dislike coming up with them for presenting at workshops I lead myself even more.  But that would have been a week ago, before I attended [...]
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So you've been asked to present on a panel and you're not sure what that entails. What should you pack into your approximately 15 or 20 minutes (depending on how many people are on the panel)? What's the secret to making a successful panel presentation? I'm presenting on a panel at the Saskatchewan Writer's Guild [...]
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Travel writing, surprisingly, is a genre that’s been around since at least the 2nd century AD when Pausanias wrote the Description of Greece. Narrative travel stories and travel diaries gained wide popularity during the Song Dynasty in medieval China, and of course, the English classic by Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, has been continuously in print […]
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Ebook sales–will they remain stable, go up, or as […]

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Plotting a novel sounds easy, doesn’t it? After a […]

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