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Over the past year or so, I’ve become quite enamored of video. I’ve been making lots of short films for my blogging business, for Overcome Everything, and for a special project I’ve been working on for more than a year.

(www.thegoldenpencil.com) Sometimes I think there is simply no way to finalize a manuscript - particularly a book-length manuscript! Can you tell I’m working on the copy edited version on my soon-to-be-released book on getting a book written? After I accepted or rejected the changes made by my excellent copy editor, I printed out the manuscript one last time.

(www.thegoldenpencil.com) I got the copy edited version of my book on writing books back. I have to tell you, I wasn’t anxious to open it; in fact, I postponed it two days. I was afraid of what I would see for two reasons. It’s always hard to look at any criticism, even when I’m the one who asked for it.

Something for my Fellow YAers... It's moments like these that I'm extremely grateful for the facelessness of a blog. Seeing me red-nosed and drippy-eyed, bundled in blankets and surrounded by a legion of soggy Kleenex is so not a Cosmo cover moment. Not by a long shot.

Yvonne Russel over at Home Biz Notes scoops me again! In a post called “Free - Penguin Authors Guide To Online Marketing - A Great Promotional Tool,” I suggest you go right over and download it. It’s a 64 page ebook with some cool graphics and, it looks like, some sage advice.

My business partner and I just finished editing a book manuscript for a client of a client. Our client is a book packager (an outfit that puts books together for publishers); the subclient is an on-demand vanity publisher preparing to print a book written by the author of a fairly laughable conspiracy

There are many positions on which century the Book of Mormon originated in, but most seem to fall into two general camps: the book was largely produced in the fifth century by Moroni, or in the nineteenth century by Joseph Smith. There is a third view: the text was largely produced in the 20th century by committees of LDS Church employees.

(www.thegoldenpencil.com) One of the reasons I like blogs so much is I don’t have to try and track everything I think I should write about here. For example, I’ve been a proponent of ebooks since the beginning; I’ve been singularly unimpressed with ebook readers.

Ahhh, I hate edits. I love that it takes less time to edit than it does to originally write a book, but I still dislike edits. rewrites, revisions, whatever you wanna call it.I would be done with the entire book today if my motivation hadn't gotten up and ran away this morning. I slacked yesterday, too.

Publishing legend Robert Giroux, the founder of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, has died. He was 94. Robert Giroux, an editor who introduced and nurtured some of the major authors of the 20th century and who rose to join one of the nation's most distinguished publishing houses as a partner, making it Farrar, Straus & Giroux, died Friday in Tinton Falls, N.J.