Getting Mathy
Hello Writers and Editors I have to admit it: I’m weird. I actually like statistics. They’re useful; they help me wrap my mind around things.What things? How my business is doing financially, how I’m doing financially, how well my books and articles are selling, and (sometimes most important) “what the @$#@#$@ is that scientist/cop/talking-head really
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Hello Writers and Editors There are people who “know” everything they need to know. Some of them think they know everything there is to know. Most of the ones I’ve met are in the 13-25 demographic, people with MBAs, or college professors (the college professors with MBAs are particularly confident in their all-knowing status).Some of
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Hello Writers and Editors Time management is important. It also gets talked about a lot. But… a lot of that talk is really the same stuff regurgitated. S.M.A.R.T. Goals, using your calendar… Let’s look at things a little differently.Time management is really conflict management. What conflicts? Well, there are goal conflicts and calendar conflicts (I
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An Update On Sally Port Magazine Sally Port Magazine’s July 2025 issue had marvelous stories from inspiring authors. It also had some tech problems, things that irritated our readers and us. The back-end software we chose had great promise. It gave us features we really wanted. But… It turns out there are issues with customer
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2026 themes still open and new themes for 2027 Hello dear authors,We’re down to three themes accepting stories, so it’s time to announce the new themes. Remember, a theme is more a guideline than a rule. What matters is that your story fits with the theme in some way (putting the theme in the title
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