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About SylviaHubbard1

AUTHOR, MOTHER, SPEAKER, JOURNALIST, CONSULTANT & MORE! Divorced Mother of three, Detroiter, Sylvia Hubbard, is not only an award winning best selling author of over 28 books, but also founder of one of Michigan's largest interactive literary community, The Motown Writers Network/The Michigan Literary Network.

ARTICLE: Trying to Sell an Old Book: Book Reprint No No’s by Irene Watson @bloggingauthors #mwn

Books have a short shelf-life. Most bookstores will only keep a book on the shelf for a few months; if it doesn’t sell well by then, they send it back to the publisher. With a million-plus new titles being printed every year, it’s hard to make a book competitive. That said, giving up after three [...]

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PODCAST: #MichLit w/Authors: Antoinette Davis & Felecia Berry #mwn #motownlit #blogtalkradio

Listen to podcast here: http://tobtr.com/s/3165311 May 23, 2012 Guest Backgrounder 1.  Guest: Antoinette Davis              Call-in Time:  5:30 p.m. Antoinette Davis bio: ANTOINETTE MARIE DAVIS is a native of Michigan. In addition to writing, she loves math, which led her to pursue a career in mathematics. She enjoys teaching mathematics [...]

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EVENT: Michigan Literary Walk June 30th #michlit #Motownlit hosted by @wsupress

Visit the event site on Facebook WSU Made in Michigan Literary Walk Public Event · By Wayne State University Press Create an Ad Sponsored Pyramid Solitaire Saga Pyramid Solitaire Saga – The new Solitaire Game! Play now. Warning: Highly Addictive! Play Now · 2,600,000 people played this. Spin. Grin. Win. Play naughty. Spin nice. Play [...]

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ARTICLE: When Author Self-Promotion Goes Overboard VIA @bloggingauthors

Are you an author or an ego-maniac? A true author loves to write. He doesn’t mind locking himself in a room by himself to pump out words for hours. While he may be willing to go out and promote his book, he will have a tendency to complain about how the time spent marketing a [...]

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ARTICLE: Busting Author Myths: Avoiding Get-Rich-Quick Schemes VIA Irene Watson @bloggingauthors

Most aspiring authors I meet seem to think that all they have to do is write a book and they will become famous overnight. And many of the readers I meet instantly think I and other authors are celebrities and must be rich and famous. Unfortunately, these myths about being an author are simply that-myths. [...]

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Michigan Author Soars With New Mother’s Day Book #michlit #motownlit #mwn

  Michigan Author Soars With New Mother’s Day Book IMMEDIATE RELEASE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THREE COUNTRIES NOW CELEBRATE MOTHER’S DAY Canton, MI- On March 8th families in Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Laos, Macedonia, Mongolia, Montenegro, Romania, Russia, Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Ukraine celebrated Mother’s Day. Then, on March 21st families in Kuwait, Lebanon, [...]

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Michigan Literary Network News is out! Edition of Fri, Apr. 20, 2012 #MWN #MICHLIT

Motown Writers | Michigan Literary Network Subscribe for Michigan Literary News 2join 4free! | CLICK HERE Recent Posts ARTICLE: Traditional Vs Self-Publishing: The Financial Perspective via Irene Watson @bloggingauthors #mwn [PODCAST: ] #MichLit Radio Show wg/Poets A Dub Michigan Literary Network News is out! Edition of Tuesday, Apr. 17, 2012 Follow Blog via Email Click to follow this [...]

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ARTICLE: Traditional Vs Self-Publishing: The Financial Perspective via Irene Watson @bloggingauthors #mwn

For most of its history in the last century or so, self-publishing has had a bad reputation, often because it was believed that an author who self-publishes is probably not a very good author. Most likely, the author had tried to get published by a traditional publisher, only to receive a slew of rejection letters. [...]

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[PODCAST: ] #MichLit Radio Show wg/Poets A Dub

Listen in now at http://tobtr.com/s/3023845. #BlogTalkRadio   Guest summary: Alex “A Dub” White is a spoken word artist whose passion and musicality with words demands his audiences’ attention. Today he’s here to talk about his debut book, For What It’s Worth.

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Michigan Literary Network News is out! Edition of Tuesday, Apr. 17, 2012

  Michigan Literary Network News Tuesday, Apr. 17, 2012 HEADLINE Educational and Business Lessons from Shark Tank It’s rare for a reality TV show to transcend its role as solely an entertainment-provider. What’s even rarer is for a reality TV show to provide business acumen, an understanding of corporate valua… Glenn220 FEATURED CONTRIBUTORS Glenn220 novelpublicity [...]

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This Tuesday: Join 5 Writers at “Freelance Marketplace Writers’ Group” via @traveltalk #mwn

This Tuesday Freelance Marketplace Writers’ Group Motown Writers Meetup Group Tuesday, April 17, 2012 7:30 PM Barnes & Noble 2800 S. Rochester Road Rochester Hills, MI 48307 Will you attend? Yes No 5 Writers going, including: Michael Dwyer I want to network with other creative people. I am a freelance writer and travel… Velonda Thompson, [...]

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[PODCAST] #MichLit Radio Show w/Michael Williams & Poet, @OneSingleRose | #BlogTalkRadio

http://tobtr.com/s/2996353 1. Guest:  Michael Williams                  www.michiganspringbookfestival.com Guest summary: Michael Williams of the Author Collective, hosts the Spring Book Festival happening this weekend. 2. Guest:         Rosemarie Wilson “One Single Rose”                      www.onesinglerose.com                                                                                                                             Guest summary: Rosemarie Wilson a/k/a One Single Rose is an award winning poet, writer, advice columnist, singer, actress and a staunch advocate [...]

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Celebrate National Library Week, April 8-14, 2012 #nlw12

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Michigan Literary Network News is out! Edition of Tuesday, Apr. 10, 2012

Michigan Literary Network News Tuesday, Apr. 10, 2012 HEADLINE Valley to Detroit: Motor City Woos Laid-Off Yahoo Employees Last week, Yahoo announced that it would cut 2,000 jobs. Given the employee shortage in Silicon Valley, most of the qualified engineers that lost their jobs in this round of cuts will likely land o… joshlinkner FEATURED [...]

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Beverly Jenkins’s New Book: A Wish and a Prayer, Releasing April 10th #motownlit #michlit #mwn

Beverly Jenkins’s New Book Releasing on April 10, 2012 A Wish and a Prayer: A Blessings Novel Beverly Jenkins Kindle Edition: $9.99     Paperback: $10.98 Anyone worried that living in a small town could be boring certainly hasn’t lived in Henry Adams, Kansas. From the wealthy divorcÉe who saved this historic town founded by freed [...]

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