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Have You Always Wanted to Write Your Own Biography?




Writing a novel or our biography is dream that many of us hold in our hearts, your book does not have to be your dream. All you need is to dedicate some time to learn how to bring out that story inside you. A new e-guide, Bring out the Novel Inside You, has been written to help you make your dream come true. Here is some great advice from this e-guide.

Writing is one of the most fulfilling careers known. Any author will tell you that you can’t find a more interesting, challenging and successful business than creating one’s own biographies, novels, technical information or advertising.

And, now you can do all this while sitting at home. Yes, YOU can create something that can provide you with entry to one of the most highly paid, in-demand businesses in the world.

Writing is, by no means, only for the highly educated. In fact, some of the most highly paid authors didn’t finish high school. If you’ve survived this far in your lifetime you have the qualifications.

Writing is a matter of thinking, developing ideas in your mind and putting those ideas down on paper.

Nor do you have to risk your work in the slush-piles of the so-called publishing companies and their editors. There are many ways to get your books published. Don’t make your study of this information seem more difficult than it really is.

Today’s world, seemingly, is ready for almost any idea and you just might have one of the best. Until recently, the large publishing companies were very particular, shall we say, as to who was good enough as an author to bother editing and publishing.

First of all, the writer had to be already known and the publishing company published his book as if it were intended for the vaults of historical artifacts.

In reality, everyone has a life, a method of thought, a sense of story telling that is as different as our DNA.

? If we aren’t born to the same parents

? If we are raised with different cultural aspects

? If we have different educations

? If we have different interests and hobbies

? If we see humor differently, or

? If we’re as uptight as a bottle of pop that could blow in a second if shaken

…. Then, how could we possibly be so alike that only one writer, writing one book, could cover all the ideas and interests to satisfy all the people in the world?

Now, that’s boring!

The publishing companies of old made small (or, sometimes, large) fortunes by declaring that publishing your book would cost a fortune.

Since no one seemed to challenge that, or figured out a better way to do things like they are done today, it may have been expensive.

But, today, anyone can write his own book, his own unique way, and publish it himself and see it on the shelves of the largest book selling companies in the world.

That’s absolutely true!

I’m going to tell you all about that in Bring Out the Novel inside you, because I know there are those who want to see their actual book sitting on the shelf in their living room.

There is nothing like seeing that hardcover book standing erect between two book ends and your name, as author, emblazoned on the spine. Wow!

However, if your intent for writing great tales of interest is to sell them, I’ve got your method in this book also.

Both methods are good, so read all about them, use them and make your living doing so.

My extended experience as a college professor of the fine arts was mainly with the high hope that some big, famous company which published books, would find my little manuscript and clamor to become the publisher.

Believe me, it wasn’t easy to be a writer in those days.

But, those days, as they are called, were much easier and slower days of living – nothing like today.

Things happened slowly. News traveled much slower and the East knew before the West by months.

Today, you have to be up and at ‘em.

Individuals are outspoken about their own ideas and what they want and like. No-one tells today’s writers or anyone else, what NEEDS to be done to be done right.

I think that, by 2008, the whole world has caught on to that concept.

So, the field is wide open for writing what and how you desire.

Along with that, the field is becoming wide open for what you want

your book to look like and how you want to express yourself.

In fact, if you want to do it all, including designing the cover, etc., then I’m going to lead you to the right place for that.

You could see your hardback book on your shelf in a matter of weeks and you’ll see your paperbacks and ebooks in just days.

More of that in the ebook.

Right now, we have to know the right way and the wrong way to compose any kind of book.

It matters not what your style is, but it does matter whether or not you are correct in the writing.

You must avoid misinformation, misspellings and awful grammar.

Don’t get scared now. You’re not going to have to parse sentences and conjugate verbs.

For more expert advice on all these points and much more detailed information, that could have your novel published in just a matter of weeks, you can order your copy of Bring out the novel inside you today.


- Elizabeth St Denny Mfa

What is the title of a dystopian Sci-Fi short story where slaves escape from the future to the past?


I’m trying to find the title and author of a science-fiction short story that was published in the pulps sometime in the early 80’s. The plot revolves around slaves from a dystopian future escaping to the “present” through the use of time portals that open randomly all over the planet. Many of the refugees were horribly tortured by the mysterious elites who rule the future and as a result are unable to be incorporated into modern society due to extreme behavioral problems. For the most part they are warehoused in concentration camps across the planet while researchers try to learn about the future and reverse-engineer the small number of artifacts the slaves occasionally bring back with them. The protagonist, I believe, was a female researcher who discovers an artifact with one of the slaves that she is afraid to turn over to her superiors because she has begun to believe that certain individuals are seeking to create the very society that the slaves are trying to escape from.
- Seeker