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There has to be some type of decision making that goes into deciding that a premium, hard cover book will sell which publishers/authors are using. There's three competing interests - the publisher, the author, and the customer. If the books are priced too high, they won't sell. If they're...

I'm not a fan of Amazon. I don't like their business practices and the way they treat their employees, plus they walked out of Quebec last year and told Quebec/Canada "too bad." But if the savings are that much, $21 paper....I gotta get over it. As for Chapters charging too much, the inside...

Canadian currency. I'm also a fan of paperback books but they're not available yet - the 1st book might be, but not the others. I don't understand the calculus that publishers/authors use. Sure, they make more per book if it's hardcover but it comes at the expense of less sales. Paperback...

Sure, authors should get paid for their work, but at that price....how accessible are the books? I'm working 5 part time jobs and living with family. Lots of my family + friends are also struggling with the costs of living these days. I know some people are visiting the local food bank. If...

I spent 4 hours at the Winnipeg Public Library today and I couldn't find the stories on the topic of the Manitoba government wanting to deny permission for the family to adopt an HIV+ child due to the medical costs being $10,000 a month. The folks working at the reference desk couldn't help...

A co-worker recommended Matt Dinniman's "Dungeon Crawler Carl" series and I requested it from the library. Couldn't stop laughing at the story so I requested the entire series and...of course, they don't have them #1 available now and #2 in order. I bought what I thought was the 2nd book and...

Catherine O'Hara. Unfortunately, Canada is closed for mourning. (She played the mom in the first 2 "Home Alone" movies.) Oh, this is already posted...sigh. I'm always late...

Well......there's a stigma around HIV and AIDS that persist to this day. People who have contracted HIV via blood transfusions and not immoral means such as gay sex or IV drug use are judged differently. Royal Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada - Wikipedia...

As the title says. I'm so mad at myself and it's spilling into my work. I have bursts of creativity and then months long dry spells where NOTHING I write...umm, "flows"? So I get depressed, stop writing and start reading again - newspapers, books, books on writing, etc - hoping for...

Thank you for the information. I don't use Excel so I wasn't aware this was a function of the software. Although...^^^^ you gave me some dates to use!

I am trying to find a year in the years of 1975 - 1985 where April Fool's Day arrived on a Saturday day or a Sunday day. An adult is going to trick a child into pranking her parents by "pretending" to run away and she ends up abducted. I know HOW the kidnapper gets away and remains...

I just finished reading "OCD Daniel" by Wesley King and I'm taking a deeper dive into his works. He's a Canadian youth fiction writer. I really like the way he treats mental health issues and the sensitive topics that develop.

https://thewalrus.ca/the-publishing-industry-has-a-gambling-problem/ This is an interesting read. It may influence some of the submissions y'all make to various publishers and agents.

Not sure if this is allowed, and if so, where it fits? I subscribe to a few online magazines and I get e-mails from them every so often. I'm noticing a trend now that one of them keeps advertising for people - "Do you love to write? Consider writing for us!" I doubt it pays a lot, but it...

Honorary niece? I know someone wrote a time off request to attend the funeral of a honorary uncle, not a blood relation but close friends with her parents, thus "uncle." My first thought was actually "adopted" - there are unofficial adoptions and formal adoptions. I'm thinking where a parent...