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Contest & Free Stuff

by Madeline Smoot | Oct 31, 2012 | Amazing Tales, Buried in the Slush Pile, CBAY Books, contests, free books, free stuff, writing contests

Fun stuff is happening at CBAY Books this week/month. First, we’re running a contest over there. The winners in both the middle grade and teen categories will receive publishing contracts for their entries. Intrigued? Then head over to the CBAY Books Facebook...

Free Web Graphics

by Madeline Smoot | Dec 22, 2009 | Children's Books, children's publishing, children's writing, free stuff, web images

Now, every blog and website needs a little color and graphics every now and then. A good source for images would be http://www.1clipart.com. Here you can find all sorts of free images like this one:And the cool thing about this site is that you can edit the images...

More Free Stuff

by Madeline Smoot | Dec 18, 2009 | building websites, Children's Books, children's publishing, children's writer, children's writing, classic children's books, free stuff, internet marketing, promotion, publicity, publishing

I had meant to have all sorts of posts about free stuff this week, but I’ve been sick. Sleep all day, only wake up to take cold medicine, kind of sick. So, I’m going to have extend my free stuff posts through next week too. Think of it as a Christmas...
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