I began working in the music retail business in January of 1988 at JR’s Music in Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, Illinois. When I started there as a manager trainee, the best selling music format was the vinyl LP, cassettes placed a distant second, and all of the CDs were contained in a single waterfall rack …
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Some Things I’ve Learned from Superstars
If you want to succeed, hang out with unsuccessful people. Er, am I remembering that right? If you want to get somewhere, don’t ask for directions. Wait, that’s not how it goes. If you want to master something, don’t learn from the mistakes of the masters. Hm. That just sounds wrong. Because I don’t subscribe to the above …
Sparkling, Free Videos from the Superstars Writing Seminar
There’s a wealth of free video footage from the first Superstars Writing Seminar available on YouTube. Some of the topics on that YouTube channel include publishing myths, agents, self-promotion, increasing writing productivity, economics for writers, novel contracts, collaboration, self-publishing, networking, and many more (including Dan Wells on story structure). I attended the actual seminar in …
