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Self-Publishing Advice: What I learned about iBooks Author for iTunes

I’ll be publishing a series of posts here about my experiences with self-publishing an e-book that has multi-media and hyperlink integration. I hope sharing tips with other authors will save them some time and headaches. Because the idea behind my book–reliving past relationships through a playlist of ex-boyfriend songs–involves an Apple device (the iPod) and …

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Cutting Room Floor: Paul ski lift scene

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Paul would not leave my side. We shuffled forward to the red plastic line in the snow and turned to watch the four-person chair on the White Pine lift as it scooped us up. A middle-aged woman and a little girl in a puffy lavender ski suit scurried to my right to claim the last …

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Cutting Room Floor: Fernando trespassing scene

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I sat down at my desk, picturing the moment I’d seen his face again. My fingers gripped the keyboard tray. The morning after our kiss, I’d worked a Sunday brunch shift at the Cheesecake bar, anchored behind the “well from hell” as we called it. I’d spun around to pull a peach puree carton …

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Cutting Room Floor: Raul getting my car towed

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Here comes another swing. Wait for it … I decided it was time to buy a new car. My Pontiac sounded like it had a black lung disease, and living in South Florida had opened my eyes to the world of wheels beyond General Motors and Ford. As an early Christmas present to myself, I …

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Cutting Room Floor: Fernando Titanic scene

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Right before New Year’s Eve, the movie Titanic premiered, so we rushed to CocoWalk’s AMC Theatre for a Sunday matinee before my night bartending shift. Through the entire three hours of emotional highs and lows and laughs and tears, surreal thoughts were bouncing around in my head like a barista on an espresso binge. Jack …

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Cutting Room Floor: About the Book pitch for queries and book proposal

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Back when the book was a memoir, I wrote this About the Book overview for my book proposal. Lots of positive responses from agents, but it didn’t hook a big fish as I’d hoped. Some of this copy made it into the A Note from the Author introduction within the book, but not all of it. Why do you …

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Welcome to my blog–the home of ex-boyfriend stories that didn’t make the book–all served with a slice of humble pie and a glass of Champagne. “Cutting Room Floor” posts are raw text (not necessarily proofread or cleaned up) from scenes that were cut from the book. I also blog about book news, events, wine and …

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