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Five of #LetterMo Challenge

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - Feb 6, 2012, 7:42 pm
Today's missive continues the holiday greeting card saga/series with a few flourishes left over from my Artist Trading Cards mania. Yes, those are puffy stickers that say "family" and "Time" - two items I know Dear Drain cherishes. The joke's on me, though, because I had to email her ...
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Four of #LetterMo Challenge

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - Feb 4, 2012, 11:16 am
Today I was going to start using up my supply of postcards - until I found I'd thrown them out. It is part of an ongoing attempt to "de-clutter" my home. My eyes fell upon my mother's notepad, in danger of becoming a coaster for libations. It had been among many sorts of stationery I found ...
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Three of #LetterMo Challenge

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - Feb 3, 2012, 1:58 pm
The stationery of today's handwritten letter was just toooo cute not to show. It's a self-folding card with bunny-babies nibbling new root vegetables. Perfect for my friend Eileen who entertains critters in her garden and home, probably year 'round. Also a perfect reminder for her because s...
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Two of #LetterMo Challenge

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - Feb 2, 2012, 1:38 pm
This second day of letter writing finds me still catching up on thank yous for holiday cards sent to me last month. Um, month before last. I send few, if any, this year. Today I write to high school classmates (MHS '61 Yay, Middies!) who live across the street from my mother's last h...
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One of A Month of Letters Challenge

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - Feb 1, 2012, 2:41 pm
Mary Robinette Kowal challenges us to a month of writing letters by hand in "The Month of Letters Challenge". My first continues belated acknowledgements for holiday cards. This particular correspondent has no computer, hence no email. Mostly she calls me with free minutes from her...
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Farewell to This Blog

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - Jun 30, 2011, 11:48 am
For the last six months, this blog has been "on sabbatical," but I have posted as the spirit moved me. All ventures have a natural cycle, and I think this blog has come to the end of it's life. (I may start others and the writers' books rev iews one conti...
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Gild, Guild, & Geld

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - Jun 25, 2011, 4:53 pm
Artists and other creatives often join together in craft guilds, so it is understandable that one would claim she "guilded" a piece of art. I don't think "guild" can be used as a verb, however. What the artist meant was that she coated the work with gold in some form, and that calls for the ...
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Anti-Bucket List

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - Jun 18, 2011, 10:06 pm
Following an experience with breast cancer five years ago, I began to have curious thoughts.They started with joy at hearing an early morning bird's song. "I'll miss that when I'm dead," I thought. The incongruity of the idea immediately followed. It was an especially unfitting respon...
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Ebook Sales Not So Fast

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - Jun 6, 2011, 3:03 pm
Predicted growth of digital publishing--in four years digital sales will still be only half as much as printed book sales. In the table below, the total numbers for both print and digital represent sales of hardbound and paperbound books in these categories: adult/juvenile/YA fiction ...
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People Prefer Opinions?

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - May 27, 2011, 1:16 pm
Many developments on the electronic publishing front happen at a breath-taking speed. Consider the latest Amazon data showing ebooks outselling tree books (my last post). And at Amazon, the new features popping up in Author Central pages (I'm struggling to get my publications listed in Shelf...
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ebooks outsell treebooks

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - May 19, 2011, 1:01 pm
Since April 1, for every 100 print books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 105 Kindle books. This includes sales of hardcover and paperback books by Amazon where there is no Kindle edition. Free Kindle books are excluded and if included would make the number even higher. Amazon - May ...
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New Copyright Article

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - May 16, 2011, 12:11 pm
UPLOADING TO THE INTERNET: WHERE TO SUE? This is the title of a new article on copyright matters of interest to writers who post material online. How appropriate! I just found much material that I've written for several sites jumbled together on many pages of a site, apparently from I...
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Fox in Sox

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - May 9, 2011, 2:53 pm
I was just sitting around in my socks when the phone rang. A prospective client with a novel manuscript asked about my services. The conversation went weird fast - He: So how do I know I won't get cheated? Me: huh? He: Yeah, how do I know you won't ... Me:...
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Celebrate Yo Mama!

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - May 8, 2011, 3:01 am
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More Kindle, Please

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - May 6, 2011, 7:17 pm
My latest publication in the Kindle Store. Tips for book signing -- even for e-books like mine. It's pretty presumptuous to call what might be a handout a "book" but that's the term the Kindle system uses, even though they don't limit the amount of content only the minimum price,...
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Get Books Reviewed

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - May 2, 2011, 6:28 am
Paul Krupin of Direct Contact PR shared the following information in a list posting titled, Getting reviews - how hard it really is... He received an invitation from an editor at The Plain Dealer, the Cleveland, OH metro newspaper to look at the paper's books section "to glean a sense of ...
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Win a Free Book

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - Apr 30, 2011, 11:49 am
Hard to believe, but yesterday not one of my Tweeple wanted to win a free copy of National Book Award finalist Jean Thompson's definitive novel, The Year We Left Home. It is her first publication since 2005 and may cap her 30-year glorious career as a novelist and short story mistress. I ha...
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New $114 Kindle

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - Apr 22, 2011, 10:36 pm
Kindle Wireless Reading Device, Wi-Fi, Graphite, 6" Display with New E Ink Pearl Technology - includes Special Offers & Sponsored Screensavers This greeted me just now when I hit up Amazon to check my Listmania and Wishlist. How soon until it's in color and below $100? &#...
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May Read or May Not

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - Apr 22, 2011, 5:10 pm
Twice a year a stack like this piles up on my desk ... and these are the ones TBR, to be read! I have finished the top two, though, so they are also for review (TBR2). Jean Thompson's THE YEAR WE LEFT HOME is particularly interesting. It fits into a Twitter chat (#litchat) thi...
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What Good is Poetry?

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - Apr 14, 2011, 5:30 pm
Children in school and many adults frequently ask the vlaue of studying poetry. They ask the same about philosophy, but I have no answer for that one. About poetry, though, I can say it enriches life in diverse manners. I will illuminate one way that a poem is currently providing joy in th...
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Avoid Writing Scams

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - Apr 10, 2011, 2:20 pm
Here's my latest piece available through the Amazon Kindle Stores in the U.S. and the U.K. This one is "Avoid Writing Scams" but because it is part of the "Be a Successful Writer!" series, it has the same cover image as the others in the series. Be sure to look for the correct ti...
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Amazon Best Books

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - Apr 7, 2011, 10:24 pm
Amazon editors' picks for the best books of the year are: "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot "Faithful Place: A Novel" by Tana French "Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War" by Karl Marlantes "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival,...
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Welcome Executive Pens!

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - Apr 1, 2011, 3:11 am
No foolin' -- welcome to our new sponsor. How appropriate, too. The Executive Pens Direct people are purveyors of fine writing instruments and other items to delight the writer's heart. They are in the UK but ship worldwide for free! I couldn't believe it when I noticed that in their...
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Move to BC

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - Mar 26, 2011, 7:10 pm
A little love note from Yahoo!: You have been identified as a customer of Yahoo! MyBlogLog. We will officially discontinue Yahoo! MyBlogLog effective May 24, 2011. Your agreement with Yahoo!, to the extent that it applies to the Yahoo! MyBlogLog, will terminate on May 24, 2011. That m...
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Great Writer's Guide

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - Mar 23, 2011, 10:48 am
Unbeknownst to me on Monday, BlogCritics.org published my review of the fantastic book by Priscilla Long, THE WRITER'S PORTABLE MENTOR: A GUIDE TO ART, CRAFT AND THE WRITING LIFE. You can read the Blog Critics review or a variation in my @GLHancock blog that also displays in my A...
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Hair Tear Time

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - Mar 22, 2011, 1:20 pm
It's time to hire a consultant, a pro, when you feel like tearing out your hair over a technical problem. I'm almost there. The problem? I've decided to return to the clutches of Blogger.com, but I can't understand how to accomplish restarting A Writer's Edge. Or why some of the p...
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Pour vs Pore

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - Mar 8, 2011, 1:42 pm
When I get my edit on, look out Internet! I just tried to check out a potential networker and spotted this: "Instead of pouring over figures and long reports" Makes me go, "Gaaaaaaaack!" What, maple syrup? No wonder none can understand your reports. This verb choice and confu...
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Nine One One

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - Mar 6, 2011, 8:44 pm
Last weekend I felt like a fashionable little girl with an armful of colorful bands. The details of an ambulance ride and sojourn in an emergency room are probably great for a story. Unfortunately I was so out of it, I am not sure what went on or when. I wasn't taking not...
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Marketing & Identity Alerts

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - Feb 24, 2011, 7:43 pm
Buckling to pressure for posts ... below are two pieces of Twitter litter I just picked up: Sister editor Marla Markman alerted me to an article on "How NOT to Sell a Book: The 7 Deadly Sins of Book Marketing" at EMSI. The seven points are all so very valid considerations, especially ...
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Cheap Photos

Georganna Hancock posted an article on A Writer's Edge - Feb 16, 2011, 9:13 pm
Blogs, websites, ebooks -- photos enhance all of these writings. Finding the photos can be a perplexing problem. Remember, although you can, it is still illegal to copy images you find on the Internet.Graphics and photos are covered by copyright law just like all your writing. The sit...
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About Me

I like to help others have better lives by sharing information...especially via the Internet. I've done this as a journalist/photographer at A Writer's Edge, as a social science researcher, and as a website creator with Hancock Websites.

I am currently publishing and assisting self-publishers with print and e-books, specializing in Kindle publishing.

I also edit, proofread and consult with new writers and authors along the path to publishing success.

I've been published since 1964 and written news, features, business articles, poetry, short stories, and novels. I moved into the 'net in 1995 and began blogging in June 2004 with "A Writer's Edge Blog", a writer's journal on English words, writing, and books. I have blogged with the Niner Niner Blog Network, 100 Bloggers, Blue Ribbon Bloggers and Lockergnome, Still publishing book reviews on BlogCritics and in a review blog @GLHancock.posterous.com and in my Amazon Author Page.

You can also find me on LinkedIn and I Twitter @GLHancock. Check up on me, tweet me, come leave a comment. Let's communicate!

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