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You've written your book, typed 'the end', and are now looking for a place to publish. STOP! Is your book ready? Of course, you'll need to edit, re-edit, and edit some more before you have a submittable project. But there are some things you want to pay special attention to before hitting send on your submission or query to a publisher. Here are some helpful hints that will get your book read with TirgearrPublishing : First, every publisher's guidelines are different, so it's important that you follow each publisher's specific guidelines, even if it means tailoring your basic submission. Tirgearr Publishing strives to make the submission process easy, so be sure to take a moment to ensure your submission is not only formatted correctly, but that the story is actually what we're looking for. Check our guidelines here Keep in mind that editors can read dozens of books per week, so the more well-presented your submission is...

Official FBI Book Piracy Info Here Book piracy is the #1 bane of an author's existence. While the divide between traditional publishing and self publishing seems to be widening, there will always be one thing that joins us together...fighting book pirates and those people who download our books from these sites. I posted about this last December with the basic DMCA notice and how to use it , but last week, Google's own Fusion Tables came under scrutiny, as a number of books were found there, being offered for free. I sent four DMCA notices on behalf of Tirgearr Publishing to those involved with this database: • Google/Fusion Tables •  The wesbite itself •  The server host who lets the website park on their server •  The domain registrant Our complaint to Google was also registered by Google with Lumen, which shows up today as an active case. Lumen (see below) is one of the main go-to sites for DMCA cases. Perhaps this was why the links from that G...