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If you are looking for advice on writing a query letter you can find advice in many different places. One good place is to pick up a guide to writing query letters from your local library. Basically, ...

The basic skills you will need for this are the usual English vocabulary and grammar rules, a good knowledge of the industry of writing freelancing and a good entrepreneurial spirit. One of the advan...

Most people I know do like to write. Everybody I know likes to get paid! I think that more people would love to get paid to write if only they knew some real ways to do this. With the growth of the in...

Sometimes we need to go back to the basics when analyzing a topic. If you are new to article marketing you will want to learn how to write articles correctly. If you are a veteran you may need a refre...

When creators' Mary Shelley, Herman Melville and Ray Bradbury share the same same birthmonth in August, Xlibris Publishing honors these amazing writers with monster publishing services savings to auth...

Bed bugs are a growing problem in Manhattan. Several retailers had to shut in order to remove them. Bergdorf Goodman is even patrolling its stores with beagles. Smart Money reports that Time Warner's headquarters were infested, so they called in professionals.

Time Warner said, "As part of a routine cleaning and preventive process, it was discovered that there were bed bugs present in a small contained area within Time Warner's offices. The problem was treated by professionals and is no longer an issue."

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When we think of our favourite novels and stories, we rarely think of the process and building blocks of storytelling that went into the creation of the narrative. Yet behind every great story is a ...

As with many professions, freelance journalism can be about who you know, not what you know. As a term, 'networking' comes with negative connotations and gives the idea of obsequiousness. But in re...

Brackets, also known as parentheses, separate a word or phrase from the rest of a sentence. The most commonly used are round brackets ( ) and square brackets [ ]. Brackets are always used in ...

This article is for people who want to do more than just write 1 article and submit it. If you want to advance your Internet business through article marekting you can do it. If you are currently usi...

It is obvious for every journalist, or internet marketer that writing articles will be a large part of their daily routine. They both do it for different reasons, but both understand that this will be...

Gifts & Decorative Accessories and Playthings magazines have merged. The magazines are both published by Sandow Media LLC. Nancy Wolkow, Publisher, Gifts & Decorative Accessories explains the merger in an article published here on giftsanddec.com. So, starting with the September/October 2010 print issue, Gifts & Decorative Accessories will include a dedicated section within the magazine called Playthings. It will open with its own heavier stock cover and contain all of the regular Playthings content. We will follow the industry with the same insight and expertise that our readers have learned to expect. We will flag the new section on the cover of Gifts & Decorative Accessories, just to make sure every reader understands where to find the toy industry coverage. The new combined publication will boast a circulation of over 26,000.

And as we are doing with the print products, we will do the same with the websites and other electronic products - rolling the www.playthings.com site into its own dedicated section on www.giftsanddec.com. We will continue to publish the Playthings electronic newsletters (Playthings Extra, Breaking News, and Playthings Buzz) with content focused exclusively on the toy industry. The playthings.com website becomes a secton of giftsanddec.com. The magazines will be combined and published under the Gifts & Decorative Accessories name.

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One of the most common book writing challenges is getting started--taking action on your book idea and actually sitting down at the computer to write. This holds more aspiring authors back than anythi...

Fiction and non-fiction have been compared tirelessly throughout the years. Because each genre has its own pros and cons, people often debate about which writing style is easier or more practical. Let...

Research is time-consuming and hard work; however, this phase in writing is essential to write a book that readers will find believable and original. As long as you know where to start and what you wa...

A survey cited by "The Wall Street Journal" says that a person who surfs the book store actually spends more time looking at the front book cover before he reads the back cover. Yes, you got i...

There's nothing mysterious about coming up with ideas for your book. Within a page or two, you'll have more ideas than you know what to do with. Your ideas start with YOU. When you think about what yo...

Book editing can be a grueling process. If you are not used to critiquing your own work, then you may pass over errors without realizing it. Editing is important to produce quality work. Learning the...

Writing is a fruitful and fulfilling endeavor. The downside is you may find it difficult to get your book published. The process of convincing publishers to publish your book as well as negotiating on...

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