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Andrew Shaffer
American
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Book
First
People
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You
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Don't respond to haters' taunts - even politely. Ignore them. If nobody takes their bait, most will grow bored and move on.
Andrew Shaffer
Will
Haters
Move On
Respond
Bored
Takes
Nobody
Bait
Most
Politely
Move
Taunt
Them
Ignore
Even
Grow
Everybody has a breaking point. It's tough to ignore the impulse to respond with anger.
Andrew Shaffer
Anger
Tough
Everybody
Respond
Point
Impulse
Breaking
Ignore
Every published writer, myself included, was at one time unpublished. All writers know what rejection feels like.
Andrew Shaffer
Time
Myself
Every
Rejection
One Time
All Writers
Unpublished
Writer
Writers
Feels
Like
Know
Included
Published
Treat haters in your online spaces just the same as you would in the real world. If they're not respectful to you and your customers, kick them out.
Andrew Shaffer
You
World
Treat
Haters
Kick
Respectful
Out
Would
Online
Real
Same
Just
The Real World
Real World
Spaces
Them
Customers
Your
Way before musicians and actors cornered the market on misbehavior, writers were flooding hotel rooms and testing their livers' upper limits.
Andrew Shaffer
Musicians
Before
Cornered
Market
Way
Writers
Hotel
Hotel Rooms
Limits
Were
Testing
Upper
Rooms
Actor
Flooding
Christmas sits like a black hole on the calendar. Just try scheduling a meeting at work the month of December.
Andrew Shaffer
Work
Christmas
Try
Black
Meeting
Month
Black Hole
Scheduling
Like
Calendar
December
Just
Hole
While I've never asked my publisher to pull one of my books off the shelves, I have deleted tweets or blog posts that have drawn criticism.
Andrew Shaffer
Criticism
Books
Drawn
Posts
Deleted
Never
Shelves
Blog
Off
While
Asked
Tweets
Publisher
Pull
Instead of silencing artists, is it possible that antidepressants can actually help them vocalize their creative ambitions?
Andrew Shaffer
Creative
Ambition
Possible
Silencing
Instead
Artists
Them
Help
Actually
Buying reviews of ebooks that include downloads is a well-known way to 'juice' an ebook's sales rank and attract new readers.
Andrew Shaffer
Way
Rank
New
Attract
Readers
Juice
Sales
Reviews
Include
Buying
The higher a book's sales ranks, the better chances it has of being noticed by Amazon's internal recommendations engine.
Andrew Shaffer
Book
Better
Ranks
Recommendations
Higher
Amazon
Sales
Being
Noticed
Engine
Internal
Chances
If you can pay enough people to buy your .99 ebook and review it positively, and crack one of Amazon's bestseller lists, readers are going to check it out. Especially at a low price point like .99. Customers are suckers for the fallacy that the cream rises to the top.
Andrew Shaffer
Buy
You
People
Pay
Enough
Enough People
Top
Positively
Out
Bestseller
Rises
Point
Price
Check
Like
Readers
Fallacy
Review
Amazon
Crack
Going
Lists
Low
Customers
Cream
Your
When Patrick finally broke his silence with 2008's 'Anthems For the Damned' - the first Filter album that he recorded sober - fans were decidedly lukewarm.
Andrew Shaffer
Silence
Fans
First
Filter
Finally
Broke
Recorded
He
Were
His
Decidedly
Sober
Lukewarm
Album
Many non-believers who have entered substance abuse programs have found themselves at odds with the religious overtones prevalent in the recovery industry.
Andrew Shaffer
Odds
Programs
Entered
Religious
Recovery
Abuse
Industry
Substance
Themselves
Who
Many
Found
It's easy to feel spurned, especially when you return to your apartment and stare at the hundreds of rejection letters tacked to your bulletin board.
Andrew Shaffer
You
Rejection
Hundreds
Easy
Feel
Return
Board
Apartment
Your
Stare
Letters
After finishing my undergraduate work at the University of Iowa, where I took creative writing classes taught by Writer's Workshop students, I applied to half a dozen MFA writing programs.
Andrew Shaffer
Work
Creative
Writing
Half
Programs
Took
Classes
Finishing
Writer
Students
Undergraduate
Iowa
Taught
Where
After
Workshop
Creative Writing
Dozen
Applied
University
'First Step 2 Forever' is a hardcover, multi-colored monstrosity that clocks in at 240 pages... half of which feature full-page pictures of the 16-year-old Bieber.
Andrew Shaffer
First
Half
Monstrosity
Feature
Step
Pictures
First Step
Clocks
Forever
Which
Pages
Hardcover
If you're looking for a behind-the-scenes rock-n-roll biography, pick up Nikki Sixx's 'The Heroin Diaries'. If you want the world's most narcissistic high school yearbook, however, 'First Step 2 Forever' is your new bicycle.
Andrew Shaffer
You
World
School
First
Looking
Bicycle
High
High School
Pick
Step
New
Most
First Step
Narcissistic
Yearbook
Rock-N-Roll
However
Diaries
Up
Forever
Want
Your
Biography
Young adult author Richelle Mead holds the distinction to perhaps be the only author ever to have a book banned... before it was even written.
Andrew Shaffer
Book
Before
Young
Distinction
Only
Adult
Written
Perhaps
Author
Young Adult
Banned
Holds
Even
Ever
In 2009, the American Library Association recorded 460 challenges reported to the Office of Intellectual Freedom.
Andrew Shaffer
Freedom
Library
Challenges
Recorded
Intellectual
Office
Reported
American
Association
I was under the impression that if you've read one vampire series for young adults, you've read them all.
Andrew Shaffer
You
Young
Vampire
Adult
Read
Impression
Young Adults
Them
Series
In 'Hope Never Dies', Biden attempts to disguise himself with a beach look, hoping that the incongruity of it will allow him to snoop around Wilmington without being recognized. Obama, on the other hand, knows the best way to keep a low profile is to just be himself.
Andrew Shaffer
Hope
Best
Disguise
Will
Just Be
Other
Way
Recognized
Obama
Wilmington
Hoping
Best Way
Beach
Allow
Never
Attempts
Look
Him
Himself
Knows
Around
Without
Hand
Dies
Just
Being
Low
Keep
Profile
Incongruity
In 'Hope Never Dies', the fictional Obama and Biden go up against drug traffickers, outlaw bikers, and other seedy opponents. They're forced to use skills they didn't know they had. Or, to put it another way, unlike Jordan Peele's Obama, this Obama doesn't need an anger translator.
Andrew Shaffer
Hope
Anger
Other
Unlike
Way
Obama
Outlaw
Never
Had
Put
Jordan
Know
Forced
Another
Another Way
Opponents
Go
Up
Dies
Fictional
Against
Translator
Skills
Use
Need
Biden is actually a wonk at heart. Despite his gaffes, he's very cerebral.
Andrew Shaffer
Heart
Despite
He
His
Very
Cerebral
Actually
Chicago is a city built on architecture, and there are plenty of buildings to scale.
Andrew Shaffer
Architecture
Plenty
Scale
City
Buildings
Built
Chicago
Once an ebook hits the Kindle Top 100, sales tend to snowball as new customers discover it in greater numbers.
Andrew Shaffer
Once
Top
Kindle
Tend
New
Greater
Discover
Sales
Hits
Snowball
Customers
Numbers
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