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| bio | website | WilliamACooper.com |
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| location | Myrtle Beach, SC | |
| age | 23 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 5 months |
| seen | Jan 9 '12 at 0:55 | |
| stats | profile views | 115 |
My name is Ralph Gallagher. I'm an editor with Charles River Press, and Captiva Press. I also work as a line editor for MLR press and it's imprints Passion in Print and Featherweight Publishing.
Under my pen name, William Cooper, I have published four books.
With Dreamspinner Press:
Broken Bones, Mended Hearts
Fireworks
I'll Be Home
With Silver Publishing:
Texan Summer
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Jun 27 |
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Where can I publicize a website I have developed for writers? If you have a website for writers, why don't you have it listed on your profile on this site, which is for writers? |
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Jun 22 |
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Is it wise to publish a novel as an e-book, and how would I do it? Epublishing is the same as print publishing. Write a book. Edit it. Shop it around to publishers. Sign a contract. |
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Jun 22 |
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Is it wise to publish a novel as an e-book, and how would I do it? Why do people assume publishing an ebook is any different than publishing a print book? Ebooks are not the same as self-publishing. |
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Jun 22 |
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Is it wise to publish a novel as an e-book, and how would I do it? Publishers will consider books that were published by other publishers, but if it was self-published first, then you'll have to really impress them and show high sales for them to accept it. Self-publishing a book first shows as amateurish and publishers will laugh at you if you call it a publishing credit. |
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Jun 15 |
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How can I make a story bigger? Conversely to @PortableWorld's advice for a reader to suggest things that are boring to be cut, have a reader read it to see where they'd like it to be longer or to add more information. Comments like "Oh, I wish you had gone into more detail about Jake's mother's arrest" could give you the extra length you need. |
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Jun 9 |
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Help me to improve grammar of this question Vote to close for not follow the guidelines established for critiques on Meta: meta.writers.stackexchange.com/questions/166/… and meta.writers.stackexchange.com/questions/181/… |
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Jun 8 |
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How can I improve the grammar of this paragraph about the role of internet? Vote to close for not following the guidelines establish for critiques on Meta: meta.writers.stackexchange.com/questions/166/… |
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Jun 7 |
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Right usage of “P.S.” in Emails Vote to close as a duplicate of writers.stackexchange.com/questions/2771/… |
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Jun 7 |
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Right usage of “P.S.” in Emails possible duplicate of Is Postscript still useful in the age of email? |
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Jun 5 |
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How to close read and do an oral presentation on it in 12 minutes orl less? Vote to close as off-topic. I don't see how this relates to writing. |
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Jun 4 |
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It is unprofessional to use double exclamation marks and CAPS in a product or service? Italics is the common way of stressing things in Fiction writing instead of Caps. Readers tend to think that caps look amateurish and equate caps with shouting. Italics is a subtler way of adding emphasis. |
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Jun 4 |
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It is unprofessional to use double exclamation marks and CAPS in a product or service? Especially because he got it back. =P |
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Jun 4 |
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Do you have to be good at grammar to get published? "Forgot to add that, obviously, you yourself could pay someone to edit the work for you, but you definitely need your manuscript at a reasonable standard to expect to get published." Snort. I've seen plenty of horribly written books that've been published. |
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Jun 4 |
answered | Example of a fictional story without any characters (the story being 1000+ words) |
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Jun 3 |
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Correct format when talking about money $$ @justkt $4.5 billion would be $4,500,000,000 =P Yours says $4.5 million. |
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Jun 2 |
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Does this microfiction provide a slightly surreal sense when describing an ordinary scene? To the person who voted to close this as off-topic: Why? Critiques are within our scope and (s)he asked as specific question about the piece and used the correct tags. |
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Jun 2 |
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Writing about drug induced hallucinations and paranoia Would it be bad form to suggest taking drugs and experiencing it first hand? =P |
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Jun 1 |
awarded | Civic Duty |
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May 26 |
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Do books have to be written in sequence? What if it's shark-riding ninjas vs robot ninjas? |
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May 25 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Is this description of my small productivity application clear enough? |
