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Still can’t believe it. Also can’t believe how the drama amongst Magic players so strikingly resembles daytime television.

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Klopotek’s Publishers’ Forum in Berlin convenes on Monday as one of Continental Europe’s “most senior” publishing conferences — to look at the young “new” publishing industry’s most intriguing issues.

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In the run-up to the London Book Fair, Monday’s Publishing for Digital Minds conference at Olympia London is the first of the year’s trade-show-opening publishing conferences.

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In what some authors may find surprising, a leading ‘gatekeeper,’ literary agent Kristin Nelson, says an authoritative personality can be writer’s best friend in negotiation — the best chance you have of seeing the gate to your prosperity well-kept.

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Success begins with a greeting.

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With Digital Book World’s (DBW) crowded keynote schedule kicking off 2015’s publishing industry conferences, technologist and writer Baldur Bjarnason likens these major events to ecclesiastical rituals. Grab a hymnal.

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A writers’ conference becomes an Indian summer camp in the strange, colorful pause between seasons at Salem, Massachusetts. Authors at Writer Unboxed’s Un-Conference are in a sort of bubble in time, like the weather, this week.

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Speakers will start with either a joke or a self-effacing comment. These comments will not be funny. Everybody will laugh inexplicably.