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Maxine Rose Shur

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Maxine Rose Shur, writer, Lowell Thomas Award winner.

Jun

4

Central Home Automation Director (CHAD)

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CHAD looks like a very useful geek-device, especially for travelers. It works with your existing windows XP system, high-speed web access, and home wiring. If you decide to try it, please let me know!

“Web-enabled, affordable [starts at $129; free upgrades], and user-friendly, CHAD allows your computer to automatically control and monitor your lamps, appliances, thermostat, sprinklers, audio/video system, and almost anything in your home or apartment while at home, or away.

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Jun

4

How to Be Your Own Publisher

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Thanks to Laura Read for sending this NYT article on new trends in self publishing.

How to Be Your Own Publisher
By SARAH GLAZER

When Amy Fisher finished writing her memoir about shooting her lover’s wife, she told her agent not to send the manuscript to New York publishers. Instead, Fisher, who made headlines in 1992 as the 17-year-old ”Long Island Lolita,” turned to iUniverse in Lincoln, Neb. The company charges authors several hundred dollars to convert a manuscript into a book and make it available for sale online.

Fisher’s ”If I Knew Then,” which came out in September, is probably the first sure-fire success to start out under the imprint of a so-called self-publishing company. (Other self-published books, notably ”The Celestine Prophecy” and ”The Christmas Box,” became best sellers, but their success was a surprise to the publishing industry.)

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