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Comment on Watch Out for Mind Mappers by Dorothy LaRue

Dorothy LaRue — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:19:33 +0000

P.S. Have you thought about doing an ebook/kindle book on your mindmapping process, Suzanna? It’s innovative and could be helpful to people….

Comment on Watch Out for Mind Mappers by Dorothy LaRue

Dorothy LaRue — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:58:58 +0000

I really appreciate you sharing your mind mapping techniques and some of the fun maps you’ve created, Suzanna. Your process, and your creative output in general, are an inspiration. Thanks for the good work you’re doing! I wrote about my beginning steps as a mind mapper, and reference you, here: http://goo.gl/JI795

Comment on Watch Out for Mind Mappers by Mind Maps - Life Elements | Dorothy LaRue

Mind Maps - Life Elements | Dorothy LaRue — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:48:36 +0000

[...] maps to last months meeting and it lit a little fire within me, to get mapping. I particularly like her approach which incorporates visual elements beyond just words, color, and direction symbols (arrows, etc.) [...]

Comment on Ow, my heart by Sara

Sara — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:46:19 +0000

Suzanna, I am blessed to be a part of this moment of revelation and consciousness. Yud is one of my favorite letters of the Hebrew alphabet, too! Here’s to connecting with the best people at the best time to move projects forward in bliss!

Best-best.

Comment on Instant skills: Just add water, time, intention, focus, chocolate by Kim Nelson

Kim Nelson — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:06:48 +0000

As usual, Suzanna, this post is synchronous and timely. A wanna-be manuscript has nagged at me for months — and I really want to do it– but I’ve filled my schedule with other projects and activities. Your article verifies that it’s time to commit to the story, and then honor the commitment. Thank you!

Comment on BAM! Pouring blogs with Glenda Watson Hyatt by Glenda Watson Hyatt

Glenda Watson Hyatt — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:51:29 +0000

Great post, Suzanna! And thank you for such praise for BAM. I’m glad you received value in the first lesson.

I’m still writing the next five lessons, so bring on your questions and I’ll try to answer them in the content or find additional resources for you.

Nice to have you in class!

Comment on Night full of stars at BABS by Suzanna Stinnett

Suzanna Stinnett — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:59:46 +0000

Gosh, thanks seester, I’m so happy you enjoyed it. I have to say it helped a lot that I was in a professional studio and working with Mary and Ted. I asked for some music like Vince Guaraldi, and Mary found the perfect sounds. She is a serious pro with this stuff. The muppet thing is Melba the orangutan. She will be appearing in many videos to come.
Love!

Comment on Night full of stars at BABS by Kathy Stinnett

Kathy Stinnett — Wed, 26 May 2010 17:40:24 +0000

Wow, Sis, you look great! How did you learn to perform so well on video? I think you’ve been secretly taking acting classes and didn’t tell me. The music is just right too, and your interaction with that muppet thing and with your audience. I love it!
KSIS

Comment on The 4 corners of your writer’s brain you need to open up now by Susanne Dyby

Susanne Dyby — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:06:00 +0000

Outrageously well written piece that opens up this world of the future, but, but, but ….the degree of noice-to-signal is also very high in the Internet universe. Successful web- authors are those who are already well known or have gone “viral” somehow, either due to coverage by the conventional media or some specialist appeal (survived falling 15000 feet from an airplane or had fifteen kids or….). Despite my objections, you have still given me hope and enthusiasm for getting on the web. I especially liked the idea of selling chapters or whole books cheaply. As you point out, there is a huge market out there, and people would hopefully be willing to take more of a risk on unknown authors and creative works if it does not cost them more than a cup of coffee.
And PS Amen to luscious printed books. My dad is a retired typographer and happens to have an old 1930′ties, large and heavy, bound and basted reference book of fonts and all those twirly-gigs used for chapter headings/endings/frontipieces. It is knock-out gorgeous. The precision is better than what digital can accomplish. So here’s a toast to variety.

Comment on Which is worse, self published or Indie author? by Suzanna Stinnett

Suzanna Stinnett — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:38:32 +0000

Maria brings up a couple of important and subtle points I’m trying to unfold here. I’m still not sure, but I think that people who describe themselves as “indie authors” are in effect publishing their own work. I would call that self publishing.

I’m not at all sure what “indie publishing” is.

Maria, you said “true” self publishers. Again, this is very interesting to me. What is a true self publisher?

I too suspect that the vast majority of people who self publish are not using the best practices. When I brought “Open Here” to print through Trafford, I went about it in the most professional way I could, using Dan Poynter’s comprehensive instructions on self publishing which I had studied for years. The result makes my work obvious: The book got picked up by a traditional publisher — which I had not even pursued. Before bringing my book to print (on demand, by the way), I paid a professional editor (it cost about $400 in 2001), and used seven well-educated associates who generously combed the book for troubled areas.

I have received comments from people who have read both “Open Here” and “Little Shifts” that the extensive formatting changes performed by my publisher did not improve the book. But that’s subjective.

What I highly recommend is that people make use of the excellent work of Dan Poynter, at least read his Self Publishing Manual (you owe that to yourself) in the process of bringing your book to print. And expect to pay a professional editor. Those are two basics you just can’t ignore if you call yourself a professional.

The problem I see with attempting to get a book published through a traditional print publisher is that this can be such a long dead-end, the poor book can be drained of all its blood in the process. It is extremely difficult to remain positive about your work in the face of the traditional publishing machine.

The up side to this attempt is that it can force you through some self-scrutiny to figure out how your book can be made a thousand percent better.

I’d love to see people respect their own work enough to climb those steep curves of editing, critiques and revision. That would go a long way toward squashing the dreck being delivered in print and in digital form.

Thank you so much for your comment, Maria!

Suzanna