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Publishing Links – Real Places, Mythical Editors, and a Wet Blanket on Ebooks

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Oh where does the time go?  Is it Thursday already?

This has been quite a busy week in my pay-the-rent job, which goes a long way toward explaining why the blog is a little slim this week — and shifted one day to the right, as they say in business speak.  (At least in English, they say this.  I wonder if Arab businessmen postpone events ilá yasár or “to the left” …)

Enough chitterchat. On to the publishing links!

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Publishing Roll – Reading Fees, First Pages, and Weird Words

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“So why,” you ask, “do you keep alternating the name of these round-ups between ‘links’ and ‘roll’?”

“Because sometimes they are spicy and meaty, and other times just a hearty helping of carbs!” 😀

You sigh at my dumb joke, and click the link below to see this week’s awesome publishing links. 

On a roll.

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My Two Cents – What a Difference Five Percent Could Make

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The Writer Beware! blog’s Victoria Strauss posted an intriguing piece based on a recent Twitter frenzy on the possibility that literary agents might bump their rates from 15 to 20 percent.   The comments, as one might expect, are all over the place, with readers coming down on this or that (or the other) side of the debate.

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