NewBay Media LLC has acquired select titles from Future US, Inc, the San Francisco-based subsidiary of Future plc. The titles include Guitar World, Revolver, and Guitar Aficionado. NewBay Media says it now reachers over 5 million music and audio professionals…

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A guest post by Linda Formichelli from the Renegade Writer blog
Readers are short on time.
So when someone starts reading your article, you have just a few seconds to draw her in and convince her to keep going. The same applies…

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With the phenomenal success of The Artist, a modern day silent film set in the late 1920s, it seemed only right that silent cinema begins to be rediscovered by the contemporary creative community. I’m a firm…

Here’s the Kickstarter project that Colin Marshall just launched over at Kickstarter. Marshall is the host of the recently ended podcast The Marketplace of Ideas. I’m a big fan of that podcast, which featured some great episodes on author Cesar…

For your weekend reading pleasure, here are our top stories of the week, including Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s shocking news about Amazon, a fake Cormac McCarthy Twitter account and  Jack Gantos‘ Newbery Medal winning novel (pictured).
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Join me in welcoming @CormacCMcCarthy to Twitter! We have the best authors in the world right here.
— Jack Dorsey (@jack) January 24, 2012
The strange saga of the fake Cormac McCarthy Twitter feed has ended. The Twitter feed that…

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You know that having a newsletter is an important component of your platform and that the list you send your newsletter to is invaluable to you.…

Do you wish you could get further with your writing?
Perhaps you want to:

Finally finish that novel that you started ten years ago
Improve your spelling and grammar
Make money from your writing
Have a popular blog with lots…

Why is the craft of writing in such a dire state? The best writers of our time create magnificent prose, and additional tiers of talents do a fine job of communicating. But the vast majority of people seem competent at…

Happy Chinese New Year, everyone! Whether you celebrate this holiday or not, I bet that you will enjoy the fireworks that come with it. Also, I was thinking that this is a good second chance to start anew for those…

Brad Liening:
Dean Young, Fall Higher: “We all think about suddenly disappearing.”
John Hawkes, Second Skin: Wow. That’s all I can say. That, and you should read this book.…

Ashleigh Lambert:
The last book I read and loved was The Transformation by Juliana Spahr. It’s basically a poetic record of Spahr’s attempt to figure out where, how, and why to situate herself in the world. Spahr is a white…

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We’re back and we’re ready to talk email marketing.
I asked two pros to come on and spill their best advice on the three biggest email marketing questions we get here at Copyblogger.
DJ Waldow joins me and Sonia Simone…

If your memories of high school involve wedgies, broken hearts, and getting stuffed into your locker, you probably love Glee.
The musical comedy TV show — Ryan Murphy’s smash hit about the nerds, misfits, and social outcasts of McKinley High…

Good morning, everyone! I hope you all had a good night’s rest and are ready to take on Hump Day. Here’s something to inspire you if you feel a little lacking in the knowledge department today.
“Imagination is more important…

Today’s word is sisyphean, part of this week’s theme, The myths of futility. It is a (adjective) and is pronounced [sis-ah-FEE-ahn]. Click to read the definition, origin and see it in action! Thu: Gordian knot | Wed: Herculean | Tue:…

conciliate: to overcome the distrust or hostility of; placate; win over.…

“Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.”…