by Tammy Ditmore | May 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
My final summary of the Independent Book Publishing Association’s Publishing University 2015 has been posted in the May newsletter of the Small Publishers, Writers, Artists Network. SPAWN is an affiliate organization of IBPA, and I was fortunate this year to be...
by Tammy Ditmore | Apr 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
Who will read your book? Who will purchase your book? Who will refer your book? Writers who don’t know the answer to those questions may find themselves with a wonderfully written, carefully edited, beautifully designed book that never sells. But writers and...
by Tammy Ditmore | Aug 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
For the past couple of years, I’ve been pleased to claim a spot on Liz Broomfield’s Small Business Chat on her LibroEditing website. My latest installment appeared Saturday on the site of Liz Dexter, who hasn’t let a spring wedding get in the way of her efforts to...
by Tammy Ditmore | Jun 14, 2014 | Alzheimer's, Events, personal reflections, Uncategorized
Father’s Day hasn’t been an easy day for me since my father started slipping down the rabbit hole of Alzheimer’s disease. It’s not that I don’t want to celebrate my father and all the ways he worked for me and loved me; it’s just that it’s difficult to know how. I...
by Tammy Ditmore | Mar 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
What a great few days at the 2014 convention of the American Copy Editors Society! I was lucky enough to present a session, “Learning to Speak Scholar,” where I got a chance to share some of the things I’ve learned while working with academic writers in the past 20...
by Tammy Ditmore | Apr 12, 2013 | Events, Uncategorized
I’m table sitting on Saturday, April 13, at the Ojai WordFest’s “A Celebration of Words”
at Libbey Bowl Saturday. The event will feature stage readings and performances by authors, poets, playwrights, songwriters, improv players and other word-artists as well as a...
