Note: the following information was collected by posting many questions on forums for small publishers; in many cases it represents opinions and should not be taken as competent legal advice.
As a compiler of a book of quotations, I sometimes get questions like, “How do I get permission to quote someone in a book?” or “What [...]

Many people get jitters in public. However, as Lilly Walters author of Secrets of Successful Speakers says, 75% of fear can be reduced by practice and preparation, 15% by deep breathing, and 10% by mental preparation and focus.
Preparing thoroughly using these virtually painless tips as a guide will help you to alleviate unnecessary stress and [...]

It’s that time of year again when we all set goals to achieve writing a book and promise to do better. We get off to a good start. We begin achieving our writing goals and we get closer and closer to writing and finishing our book, and then we stop. We get [...]

To Overcome Fear of Public Speaking, You need to Understand the Underlying Causes.
Once you can identify the causes that are underlying your public speaking nerves and fear, you can choose the strategies you need to build your confidence, use the fear and present successfully.
Most people suffer from some fear of public speaking. The survey [...]

Slamming online article submission sites professional writer Ms. Lawrence thinks that amateur authors of articles are causing problems in the writers market. As an online article author myself, well I say; too bad. It seems that online article authors are said to be hurting the abilities of professional writers and authors to sell their work. [...]

At least a few times during the past six months I’ve quoted one of my dynamic speech teachers, Sheldon Hayden, with respect to one topic or another.
He was a dashing, former Navy Captain and one of Dale Carnegie’s first clone-instructors.
I had the privilege of learning with him when he was a fireball in his youthI [...]

You carry it around with you all the time, waking and sleeping. You talk with it, complain with it, cry with it, laugh with it, communicate with it, avoid communication with it, love with it. You use it and abuse it without giving it a second thought. You take it for granted.
If you’ve never been [...]

An author is a chronicler and creator of works of fiction or facts in book, electronic, or document form. It took American authors nearly 200 years after setting foot on the new continent to develop their own style and set standards to be followed by future generations.
Initially, the style was more of a colonial carryover, [...]

The same week our fowls were stolen, Daphne Moran had her throat cut.
I think he has our attention. Would you read the next paragraph? That’s how Ronald Hugh Morrieson begins his New Zealand novel Scarecrow.
You’re quite right of course, we can’t go making up stories about people having their throats cut just to improve our [...]

One of the most effective and powerful methods to promote your web site is with articles or what some call “Article Marketing”.
What articles have to do with promoting your site you might ask, well, a lot!
First, the Internet is providing a major thing to the web surfers and that is information or in other words [...]