Author Archive: Raven West
Why Les Miserables Won’t Win Best Picture, and Why It Doesn’t Matter
I am a Les Miserables fanatic. I’ve seen the play twelve times since 1985. My collection of Les Miserables souvenirs include several coffee mugs, two keychains, one the brass keychain of the theater ticket, two match boxes, t-shirt, sweatshirt, nightshirt, beach towel, pen, movie and play posters, the complete Broadway production on both cassette and …
Writers Beware! Don’t sign away your soul just to be published!
The life of a writer takes many strange turns and on the way we meet many strange people. We love to hear that the time we spend typing our guts onto a computer screen is appreciated, and we are ecstatic beyond words when a publisher is enthusiastic enough about our work to offer us a …
Author Raven West 
Erase the “Self-Published” Label – Become a Publisher!
Raven West ♦ March 31, 2013 ♦ Leave a comment
Once upon a time, a very long time ago – actually, it was only about a decade ago, but it seems like a very very VERY long time ago – the question everyone I met at book signings and festivals was “What is your book about?” If they liked the answer, they bought a personally …
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