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Do you find it frustrating when you receive a very informative quilting ezine then discover it’s not online as well.  I just realized I no longer had the directions for a project because I’d deleted the e-mail newsletter.  (Even putting newletters in folders becomes cumbersome because I can only store so much.)
So I searched the web site for this online quilting store and found under “newsletter” a place to subscribe but no archive of newsletters.  Perhaps I didn’t search the site well enough (I still have a lot to learn about this techie stuff!).  But I couldn’t find it. 
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If you’re interested in publishing your quilting patterns, compiling your quilt history research, telling your family’s quilting stories or writing quilting fiction, you may be interested in learning how I went about compiling an anthology of children’s stories, Tales of Adventure & Discovery.  This isn’t the only way it can be done, but may give you some ideas and inspiration as a springboard for your project.
I recently wrote two posts over at Home Biz Notes about my self-publishing experience with Tales of Adventure and Discovery.  Check these out, and then leave questions for me in the comments section below.  In …read more

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If you’ve thought about writing and publishing books, even newspaper and magazine articles, about your quilting experiences (as Doreen Speckmann did) or describing original patterns, you may enjoy the series of posts Yvonne Russell and I are writing (along with guest posts) at Home Biz Notes throughout July.
I shall be writing a series on self-publishing, including my experiences with my book, The Magic of Patchwork. There will be posts on all types of writing including fiction and non-fiction, commercial writing, newsletters, and e-books.
Come join us throughout the month to learn about writing and publishing from home. Share with us and ask questions, too.
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