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kvarun88 @kvarun88 (274) • India 1 May 12

Hey guys have u ever published ur book online on a site like smashwords or kindle's independent author publishing platform? if yes then please share ur experiences on the same. As i have a few books written by me and i want to...

amazon

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Morgan Drake Eckstein I am still struggling with the marketing end. The items that I am selling seem to sell themselves, and no amount of advertising or promotion seems to be able to move the other items. This trend has resulted in me thinking that my time is better spent writing...

6 Feb 13

sirnose @sirnose (2436) • United States 30 Apr 12

I been thinking about writing for passsive income and I want to know do writing for sites like hubpage, infobarrel, Bukisa, do your articles that you write move up the search engines over time?

revenue sharing

write for passive income

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Morgan Drake Eckstein Even when Yahoo Voices will publish an article, it takes them forever to approve it. I much preferred the Associated Content system of page views only equals immediate approval. It is heard to write anything newsworthy when it takes a week for the article to...

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divineathena @divineathena (1746) • United States 3 Aug 11

I published the tarot meanings at Bukisa. And now I get many readers who are finding them very helpful. I am thinking that it would be great to change them into Ebook form with an addition of some more beneficial information on...

ebook

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Morgan Drake Eckstein Yeah, I am currently editing my own stuff. The good thing about this project is that everything is at least six months old, so it is like reading someone else's work. While I would love to pay someone to do the formating and editing for me, I just don't have...

5 Aug 11

drasnian @drasnian (548) 5 Jul 11

Okay, so I was wondering, in preparation for the movie next week, how many of you have read the books? I was thinking of re-reading books 1-7 between now and then, but I'm worried then I'll be more likly to criticise the things...

deathly hallows

harry potter

movie adaptation

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Morgan Drake Eckstein I hang around with potters and ceramic makers; you should hear the jokes about "Hairy" Potter. They are right up there with "pothead" jokes. I am not saying that they are good jokes, merely that jokes are being made. *wink*

6 Jul 11

Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 2 Jul 11

Recently, I have been looking around various self-publishing and ebook sites. I am looking to find a decent ebook outlet for the novel that I am working on. Now, one of the sites I have found is Smashwords. Smashwords looked ok...

ebooks

formatting

smashwords

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Morgan Drake Eckstein I have done a publication though Lulu---they allow you to upload your actual Word document as is; you don't have to jump though loops to get it though the grinder. The only reason I removed the publication from Lulu is that they changed the minimum page count...

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Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 2 Jul 11

Recently, I have been looking around various self-publishing and ebook sites. I am looking to find a decent ebook outlet for the novel that I am working on. Now, one of the sites I have found is Smashwords. Smashwords looked ok...

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Morgan Drake Eckstein I have been busy with college classes, and trying to make a living as a writer. And taking photos for my wife's new jewelery business. Tonight, I decided to slip in here for awhile and take a break. It is good to see you too!

3 Jul 11

Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 18 Dec 07

I grew up in an extremely poor family (at least, as far as the USA is concerned). I am the oldest of eight kids, and only dad worked. Mom was not happy at being so poor; it was one of the dirty secrets that us kids had to do the...

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Morgan Drake Eckstein Oh, that is such a good example. I have met these people and they annoy the heck out of me.

15 Jun 11

Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 2 Apr 11

The other day, I recieved my first email that was claiming to be from someone in Libya. They were asking me to share my bank information with them, so that they could transfer their wealth out of the country. I am not sure...

email

libya

scams

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Morgan Drake Eckstein Occasionally, I think about messing with these people, but being in university while trying to run a freelance writing business tends to limit the amount of time I have for such matters.

11 Apr 11

chiyochan @chiyosan (30184) • Philippines 2 Apr 11

Do you believe that there are people who are born to be lucky? That they get to be the people who wins prizes in company giveaways, or they get to be picked to receive something in public events.. etc.. Do you think it is really...

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Morgan Drake Eckstein I will admit that Plan B sounds more reliable.

2 Apr 11

mommaj @mommaj (23112) • United States 30 Jun 10

I have seen sites with article length requirements as low as 150 words per article. This isn't very much and sometimes you can say what you need to say in such short verse and other times you need to elaborate. Some sites are 400...

articles

length

word count

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Morgan Drake Eckstein Oh, you dont know. I collect old books and magazines about writing. Personally, I started writing for print (off and on) in 1984. And in many ways, the envirnoment that all of us are now writing in is completely different...it may not have been the dark ages,...

2 Jul 10

laglen @laglen (19759) • United States 1 Jul 10

A warning label on cell phones that state they may cause cancer. Representative Dennis Kucinich (you may remember him as a democrat running for President against Obama) is proposing a bill to do this and provide funding for more...

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Morgan Drake Eckstein You can just hear the agruement coming, can't you? "That is second hand radiation." "Well, you can put on your lead earmuffs if you don not want to get radiated." (This was funnier in my head.)

1 Jul 10

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Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 25 May 10

I just recieved a junk (spam) email (obviously some scam or another). In part, it read: "Job Offer: Optima Integrated Energy Services is pleased to offer you a job. We trust that your knowledge, skills and experience will be...

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Morgan Drake Eckstein I missed the previous espisode, so I spent the entire time trying to help my wife understand what was going on. I am still undecided about how I feel about it. I need to actually watch it in peace to make up my mind. But it sure did bring up some questions...

25 May 10

Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 25 May 10

I just recieved a junk (spam) email (obviously some scam or another). In part, it read: "Job Offer: Optima Integrated Energy Services is pleased to offer you a job. We trust that your knowledge, skills and experience will be...

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Morgan Drake Eckstein There has to be dozens of people who have fallen for this one. This email, or some close clones of it, have been cropping up in my spam folder for several years. But you do have to wonder if this is how BP does their hiring.

25 May 10

Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 25 May 10

Oh goody. It is update day. The joy of Microsoft Windows updates swells my heart as I look at the little icon on the bottom of the screen telling me that it is time to obey and install the latest updates to my computer. Maybe...

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Morgan Drake Eckstein Wow, I thought it was pure FUN to take ten minutes to shutdown and restart the oldest computer in the house. I can't imagine the heights of pleasure that thirty minutes of updating joy can bring one to.

25 May 10

Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 25 May 10

I just recieved a junk (spam) email (obviously some scam or another). In part, it read: "Job Offer: Optima Integrated Energy Services is pleased to offer you a job. We trust that your knowledge, skills and experience will be...

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Morgan Drake Eckstein It would be hard to do a worst job, wouldn't it?

25 May 10

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writersedge @writersedge (22563) • United States 22 Jan 10

a month to see how much money you need to average per day in order to make $10 by the end? Basically, with 31, 30, and 28 days in the months in a year and leap year is 29, you only need to do 3 or 4 math problems to find out the...

figure for different months

figure out how much to earn per day

make 10 dollars

mylot math

work harder

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Morgan Drake Eckstein The reason I am not here more often is simple. In the time it takes me to make 34 cents here, I can crank out a ten dollar article elsewhere. Therefore, when you see me here, you know that I am taking a break from writing. I will admit that I did the PTCs...

22 Jan 10

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Iram786 @Iram786 (498) 16 Jan 10

I really want to join a website where I can post articles and recently I had a discussion on myLot about where I could write these articles and a lot of people said Associated Content or Buksia. I only want to choose one, so what...

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Morgan Drake Eckstein Paypal.

16 Jan 10

Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 22 Dec 09

Yesterday, I was sending out emails wishing people a happy holiday. I was doing this manually, and some of the addresses were not in my address book; plus some of them were in different addresses books (I have a couple of...

business

email

mailing list

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Morgan Drake Eckstein Well, some of these email addresses are from people who emailed me asking questions about something that I wrote about. Which is why I realized how many I had already, I wondered if I could turn this into the beginning of a mailing list.

24 Dec 09

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