http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Diane+Eble Self Help Diane Eble Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=116260&ca=Self+Help I love to receive gifts. Especially when I am not expecting them. One day I received a large box in the mail. Mystified, I checked the return address. Who could be sending me presents, and why? I hurriedly opened the box. Inside were several small, individually wrapped gifts. I opened the card. A fr... Self Help Diane Eble Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=116257&ca=Self+Help It was almost like a fairy tale. Growing up as a missionary kid in Africa, Catherine Palmer began writing stories. But it wasn't until years later, after shed married, earned a Masters degree in English, and had a child, that she began writing with intent to publish. She wrote a historical novel set... Writing Diane Eble Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=116255&ca=Writing When a book or magazine publisher agrees to publish your work, you must sign a contract. In this contract there is a very important area concerning rights. Be very careful about which rights you retain, and which rights you hand over. For a magazine article, you want to grant first rights only. Be c... Family Concerns Diane Eble Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=116258&ca=Family+Concerns I was frustrated, not for the first time, by a particular person. Someone who does things very differently than me--in my opinion, too slowly, or without enough regard for reality. This person was unconcerned, in my mind, about what was important, and focused only on the negative. I did not want to... Marketing Diane Eble Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=116039&ca=Marketing One of the biggest problems with traditional book marketing is that when someone buys your book, you have no way of contacting your readers. There's no way to tell them about any other books you have (unless the publisher included that in the book somewhere), or when you have a new book coming out.... Religion Diane Eble Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=116261&ca=Religion My son borrowed a book from the library called Eye-Illusions. In the olden days, artists drew 3-D pictures by hand. It took them a long time to create even one simple image. Maybe you remember the pictures and the little glasses that would allow the pictures to “pop” out? Thanks to technology, artis... Writing Diane Eble Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=116037&ca=Writing Is your book's back cover turning away sales? It may be, if you make the #1 mistake even supposedly savvy publishers make. Remember, people will pick up a book because the title, or perhaps the design, catches their interest. But what happens next? They look at the back cover. And if the copy doesn...