by Terry Persun
November 2016
Like most writers, I started out being an avid reader: from the time my parents read children’s books to me, to the first short stories my brother introduced me to, to the first novels I checked out of our school library. Even as a child, my interests were broad, and I would read everything from mysteries to science fiction and science to biographies.
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October 2015
I’ve been writing for a long time and I’m, well, up there in age. So, when I was asked to teach writing skills to eight teenagers from a private school, I froze. My first thought was that I would be over their heads, or they’d see me as just some old dude going on about passion and commitment, then stop listening when I got to craft.
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September 2015
AI recently gave a talk on “Befriending the Giant” where I explored Amazon’s more than a dozen programs for authors. That talk took all day and was very intense, and still it was impossible to get very deeply into how to work with Amazon on a broader scale. So, for this piece I’d like to discuss how an author might increase their Amazon footprint.
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