By Shelley Sturgeon

The first weeks that children are back in school means getting back into routines for many of us. Summer is winding down, leaves are changing colour (depending, of course, on where you live) and thoughts of Thanksgiving, Halloween and yearend holidays are just starting to creep into our consciousness.

For writers, plans for NaNoWriMo (National November Writing Month) and its nonfiction equivalent NaNonFiWriMo (National Nonfiction Writing Month) a.k.a. WNFIN (Write Nonfiction in November) may be on the horizon as well. Are you participating this year?

And, don’t forget:

• Submissions for our next Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies blog carnival are accepted until Sunday, September 15th.
   
• Submissions for September’s e-Book Cover Design Awards will be accepted until Monday, September 30th.

Any questions? Leave a comment or contact us here.

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“When I was at NINC last year in Florida last year, I was telling my mailing list that all the exciting developments in audio are coming from outside Amazon right now, from people like Findaway, Kobo, Chirp/BookBub, and various companies serving the library market.”

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“I’m going to be daring in making a statement. I don’t think author newsletters work.”
 
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