Laura Christianson Building a Successful Platform

Laura Christianson (www.laurachristianson.com), author of The Adoption Network, will be keynoting at the Ours Through Adoption Conference in Green Bay, Wisconsin March 14. She will be giving away a copy of The Adoption Network (a handbook for starting an adoption support system) to every conferee. In addition to her keynote address, titled “Anticipating Adoption,” Laura [...]

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Practical Procedures

By Tammy Hopf Procedure: A sequence of activities, tasks, steps, decisions, calculations and processes, that when undertaken in the sequence laid down produces the desired result, product, or outcome. Do you remember setting up your first VCR? I do. The instruction manual seemed to be written in another language—and so many steps! I tossed it [...]

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Self-Publishing: Last Resort or Starting Point?

When companies get bigger, they want to publish bigger books,” says [Lynn] Garrett. “They want to publish fewer books and get more money out of them, so they look for big-name authors. It’s quite a bit harder in that type of market for first-time authors or mid-list authors to get their books out.” Most bestsellers [...]

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