The book 'The Hidden Pen Names' is completely dedicated to all the writers with love and affection. This book, 'The Hidden Pen Names', is Abhishek Pandey and Pratima Chaubey's 2nd anthology together. Here, they try to give an opportunity to the talented aspiring writers to pen down some of the most beautiful pieces they have ever written. This book is based on the idea that every writer writes with a unique self. This unique self is different from the writer's actual self. Thus, they give their writer-selves a 'pen-name'. But, these pen-names remain 'hidden' somewhere amidst the writers' world. Thus, we, together, decided to bring up these pen-names with their beautiful words to the readers' world and benefit them with the joy of reading. This anthology promises a smile, a tear and probably even angst for the readers. It will allow you to vent all your 'hidden' feelings.
Hollie Porter is the chairwoman of Generation Disillusioned. At 25, she’s saddled with a job she hates, a boyfriend who’s all wrong for her, and a vexing inability to say no. She’s already near her breaking point, so when one caller too many kicks the bucket during Hollie’s 911 shift, she cashes in the Sweethearts’ Spa & Stay gift certificate from her dad and heads to Revelation Cove, British Columbia. One caveat: she’s going solo. Any sweethearts will have to be found on site. Hollie hopes to find her beloved otters in the wilds of the Great White North, but instead she’s providing comic relief for staff and guests alike. Even Concierge Ryan, a former NHL star with bad knees and broken dreams, can’t stop her from stumbling from one (mis)adventure to another. Just when Hollie starts to think that a change of venue doesn’t mean a change in circumstances, the island works its charm and she starts to think she might have found the rejuvenation she so desperately desires. But then an uninvited guest crashes the party, forcing her to step out of the discomfort zone where she dwells and save the day ... and maybe even herself in the process.
A literary history of eighteen authors from the 19th and 20th centuries and their famous pseudonyms. Exploring the fascinating stories of more than a dozen authorial impostors across several centuries and cultures, Carmela Ciuraru plumbs the creative process and the darker, often crippling aspects of fame. Only through the protective guise of Lewis Carroll could a shy, half-deaf Victorian mathematician at Oxford feel free to let his imagination run wild. The three weird sisters from Yorkshire—the Brontës—produced instant bestsellers that transformed them into literary icons, yet they wrote under the cloak of male authorship. Bored by her aristocratic milieu, a cigar-smoking, cross-dressing baroness rejected the rules of propriety by having sexual liaisons with men and women alike, publishing novels and plays under the name George Sand. Highly accessible and engaging, these provocative stories reveal the complex motives of writers who harbored secret identities—sometimes playfully, sometimes with terrible anguish and tragic consequences. Part detective story, part exposé, part literary history, Nom de Plume is an absorbing psychological meditation on identity and creativity. Praise for Nom de Plume A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year “Each page affords sparkling facts and valuable insights into . . . the eternally mysterious, often tormented interface between life and literature.” —Elif Batuman “A richly documented literary excursion into the inner, secret lives of some of our favorite writers.” —Joyce Carol Oates “You are on the second to last page . . . and wishing you weren’t because this book is such great fun.” —San Francisco Chronicle “[An] engrossing, well-paced literary history. . . . It’s biography on the quick, and done well.” —Bookforum
The greatest treasure, a most dangerous magic. Growing up in the Cinzio Traveling Players Company, Genevieve Flannery is accustomed to a life most teenagers could never imagine: daily workouts of extravagant acrobatics; wild animals for pets; and her mother, Delia, whose mind has always been tortured by visions—but whose love Geni never questions. In a world of performers who mystify and amaze on a daily basis, Delia’s ghostly hallucinations never seemed all that strange . . . until the evening Geni and her mother are performing an aerial routine they’ve done hundreds of times, and Delia falls to her death. That night, a dark curtain in Geni’s life opens. Everything has changed. As they reel from the tragedy, the Cinzio Players are also grappling with the circus’s new owner: a generous, mysterious man whose connection to the circus—Geni suspects—has a dark history. And with the discovery of an otherworldly inheritance and her perilous mission to protect it, Geni is suddenly stumbling into a new reality of her own, her life interrupted daily by the terrors only Delia used to see. As the visions around her grow stronger, and her magical legacy becomes even more menacing, Geni is not sure who she should trust or love. Worst of all, she’s starting to question whether she can trust her own mind.
Email is the most powerful tool authors and bloggers can use. Period. This is THE book that authors and bloggers need to make the most of email marketing. Email Lists Made Easy for Writers and Bloggers is the missing piece to get your list on lock. Far from a boring read on "email marketing," it will speak in terms that writers and bloggers understand. - Personal Connection - Email is far more personal that any other social connection you can have with your followers. Learn to harness that power. - Permanent Connection - You can literally download your subscribers' emails and hold them in your hand. Try doing that with Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. - Powerful Connection - The ROI of email beats the pants off anything else you'll try. A 2016 study from Campaign Monitor found that for every $1 you spend, you'll get $44 back. Get specific training on how to create and grow an effective list, from that very first signup form to more advanced tools like autoresponders series. With a free workbook you can download upon purchase, this book will be more than just ideas. It will be a practical guide that will help you learn to love (and get the most from) your email list. Chapters Include: - Finding Your Why - Choosing an Email Service Provider - Optimizing Your Signup Forms - Onboarding - Creating Content - Upping Engagement - Implementing Growth Strategies - Creating Freebies and Content Upgrades - Keeping Your List Clean - Planning Autoresponders - What's Working in 2017 Plus, you'll also get a glossary of terms you need to know and a section with the most frequently asked questions about email lists. The accompanying workbook also includes a checklist for setting up your list so that you won't miss an important piece. No one ever says they are glad they waited to start their list. Let your email list work for you. Starting...NOW. Kirsten Oliphant is a writer with an MFA in fiction and a blogger with over 10 years under her belt. She hosts the Create If Writing podcast, where she talks all about building an online platform without being smarmy. She was named one of the top 25 Social Media Power Influencers in both 2016 and 2017 and has spoken at conferences like BlogHer Food, Podcast Movement, The MediaVine Publisher's Conference, Blog Elevated, and HBU's Writer's Conference. Get started today with Email Lists Made Easy!
Stuck? Stalled? Slow to Start? Authors, this book is for you. If you are a new writer, determined to break into the publishing world, you might think you must do it all—which often slows you down. Or worse, shoots you down the wrong spirally, sticky slope that oddly resembles Alice’s rabbit hole. You keep trying to open the doors to success but can’t find the right key. And just when you think you’ve found the right key, the door cracks open a little wider—enough to glimpse what’s on the other side. Another golden key! It’s sure to bring success. Right? And oh! You want that! You’re tempted to drop everything and grab onto it. Established authors suffer from Alice’s rabbit hole syndrome, too. Make no mistake—it’s not just new and aspiring authors. If you are an established writer with a stalled, stuck, slow to start, or even spirally career—no matter the reason—you may be desperate to get back on track. Let’s talk about some ways to do that. This book shares 5 Path-Points to Writer Success: Your Write Path Your Ideas and Creativity Your Habits, Routines, and Processes Your Sweet Spot Your Publishing Path **** Part Workshop, Part Memoir, Part Damn Good Writing Advice Maddie James has run the gamut of publishing options--from freelancer, to traditional publishing, to independent publisher. Her thirty-plus year writing career has provided opportunities for success, pitfalls and pivots, goals met, and lessons learned. She's dishing out her ideas in this book.
An Inkwell of Pen Names tells the stories of 100 authors’ pen names in a hundred short chapters. Many other authors who used pen names are discussed incidentally. Features of the compendium include pen names beginning with every letter of the alphabet, authors from twenty-five countries, the recipients of the Nobel Prize for literature who used pseudonyms, and a balanced selection of men and women authors.
“An exciting and intellectually fluent work that avoids most of the clichés of contemporary anthropological thought.” —Gregory Starrett, coeditor of Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion in the Middle East Despite a rich history of ethnographic research in Middle Eastern societies, the region is frequently portrayed as marginal to anthropology. The contributors to this volume reject this view and show how the Middle East is in fact vital to the discipline and how Middle Eastern anthropologists have developed theoretical and methodological tools that address and challenge the region’s political, ethical, and intellectual concerns. The contributors are students of Paul Dresch, an anthropologist known for his incisive work on Yemeni tribalism and customary law. As they expand upon his ideas and insights, these essays ask questions that have long preoccupied anthropologists, such as how do place, point of view, and style combine to create viable bodies of knowledge; how is scholarship shaped by the historical context in which it is located; and why have duration and form become so problematic in the study of Middle Eastern societies? Special attention is given to understanding local terms, contested knowledge claims, what remains unseen and unsaid in social life, and to cultural patterns and practices that persist over long stretches of time, seeming to predate and outlast events. Ranging from Morocco to India, these essays offer critical but sensitive approaches to cultural difference and the distinctiveness of the anthropological project in the Middle East.
The Productive Indie Fiction Writer Strategies for Writing More, Earning More, and Living Well Proven tactics from an author of 200+ fiction titles. Is your indie writing business overwhelming you? Are you flailing, looking for the way to increase your revenue? Are you constantly buying courses, watching webinars and wondering how to get ahead? There is so much information available for indies that, often, we don’t know where to start or who to trust. Dip into The Productive Indie Fiction Writer and learn how to deal with everything that comes at you on a daily basis. Get back control of your writing career not by adopting yet another system, or buying yet another expensive technological solution, but by going back to basics. Get organized. Get a handle on your writing business…and your life. Writing, Research & Publishing Guides | Publishing & Books | Authorship ___ Praise for Tracy’s The Productive Indie Fiction Writer blog: Great blog, Tracy! And, yup, I’m more prolific now than ever before. I really appreciate you taking the time to write this post up even while you’re going through all of that! it was exactly what I needed to read right now. …thank you for this post and for all the other posts that I’ve read on here! it helps me finish off this year knowing that I’m not alone in struggling with creative output under pressure, This is great stuff. Thanks for sharing your tips. You’re an inspiration, so keep doing what you’re doing! WOW, even in this stressful time you’re still on top of it. Man you are so full of all kinds of information. As always, I found this very interesting and enlightening. ____ Tracy Cooper-Posey is a prolific indie fiction writer with over 200 titles published. Her books have been nominated four times for Book Of The Year. Tracy won the award in 2012, and a SFR Galaxy Award in 2016 for “Most Intriguing Philosophical/Social Science Questions in Galaxybuilding.” She has been a national magazine editor and for a decade she taught romance writing at MacEwan University. She is the owner and sole content writer of The Productive Indie Fiction Writer blog, the publisher at Stories Rule Press, and manages the content for four author sites. The Productive Indie Fiction Writer book is her first non-fiction book for writers. She is addicted to Irish Breakfast tea and chocolate, sometimes taken together. In her spare time she enjoys history, Sherlock Holmes, science fiction and ignoring her treadmill. An Australian Canadian, she lives in Edmonton, Canada with her husband, a former professional wrestler, where she moved in 1996 after meeting him on-line.
