… our region that want input from constituents. It is our job to keep track of what's happening and give them that input. As things move forward, it is imperative that we take part in the process. And we hope this coverage will help you do that. David Specht is editor and publisher of the Minden Press-Herald.
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If you look on the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best Seller list for short reads, you would be hard-pressed to find any: all 15 titles exceed 300 pages, and over half of them clock in somewhere in the 400s. Despite what the best sellers would have you believe, there are tons of amazing books with
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What Is It?: The Music Modernization act, or “MMA” creates a formalized body, run by publishers, that administers the “mechanical licensing” of compositions streamed on services like Spotify and Apple Music (we call them DSPs). It changes the procedure by which millions of songs are made available
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I have concluded few people in the world probably pay attention to words used in business as I do. Of course, it is my profession to do so, but it also illustrates how a businessperson can misplace a letter or use a similar sounding word and make a small error in writing but a large error in meaning.
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In my opinion, having each club identified by its actual loft (such as 34 degrees for a seven iron), was a great way to help golfers make the best club decisions for their game. In addition … White said the PTx forged cavity-back irons are Hogan's current best sellers, but they are not resting on their laurels.
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A Wilkes-Barre resident has won $1 million — plus $5,000 a week for life — in a Publishers Clearing House grand prize sweepstakes, officials from the company said Thursday in a press release and phone calls. The lucky winner, the release said, will be surprised today with a visit from the company's
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The Allen and Helen Hermes Arts Series will present an all-day Fiction Writers Workshop at The Mark Twain Library on Saturday, March 3 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Gotham Writers Workshop instructor Susan Breen will lead a one-day crash course in fiction writing that combines lectures on craft (plot,
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So here I am, writing to assure our readers that no, the media does not love mass shootings. For any reason. Such an accusation … “Finally, I sat down at the computer and wrote this; for no other reason than because for me, writing can be an outlet, a way to get things off my chest. Maybe I can at least
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Hybrid publishers use an author-subsidized business model, as opposed to financing all costs themselves, and in exchange return a higher-than-industry-standard share of sales proceeds to the author. In other words, a hybrid publisher makes income from a combination of publishing services and book
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To apply, please email: a CV of both your work as a writer and/or other employment, training and education; a brief description of where you currently are as a writer; a brief description of why you would like to be involved in this project; two pages of a script that you've written in the Welsh language; and
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