Fellowships for Writers in France and the USA

Brown Foundation Fellowship Program The program at the Dora Maar House in Southern France offers residential fellowships, lasting for between one and three months. Application fee $20. Deadline for Fall 2019 is February 15, 2019, or on October 15, 2019, for the spring 2020 session. The successful candidates will receive:
• travel expenses to and from Dora Maar House
• reimbursement for reasonable shipping costs for materials such as books and research files
• a stipend of US$50 per day for basic living expenses
• a private bedroom, bathroom, and studio
  
  
  To apply, go to the website of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: https://core.slideroom.com/#/Login You will find all the details on how to apply on their site.

Another Fellowship - Comes up Each Year: Fellowship for Emerging Writers (not yet published or contracted): The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts Seven Months Residency Fellowship - provides an apartment plus a monthly stipend of $750)  The residencies run from 1 October 2019 to 30 April 2020  http://www.fawc.org/web/applications Hurry up, deadline December 2, 2018, or apply next year

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5-Star Review: 111 Tips on How to Market Your Book for Free

I’m honored by this great 5-Star review on my book 

by Alyssa Elmore for Readers’ Favorite:

"Confused about how to build an author platform?  Frustrated with slow marketing progress?  Discover how to create a viable online author presence in the informative book, 111 Tips on How to Market Your Book for Free (Detailed Plans and Smart Strategies for Your Book's Success) by Doris-Maria Heilmann.
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Creating an online presence can be a daunting task for the author.  Promoting yourself and a book can quickly lead to you becoming overwhelmed.  Strategize your writing career by planning how to publish, publicize, and launch your book.  Learn how to get your books in bookstores and libraries, and correctly contact television and radio stations, and blogs.  Develop a solid plan to market your book and watch your sales grow.  Are you ready to elevate your book promotion?

For newcomers and seasoned authors, 111 Tips on How to Market Your Book for Free delves deeply into the mechanics of taking your writing career to the next level.  With more links and resources, this book can easily become invaluable to the writer.  Although it may be more dense with information, the content is much more detailed."

111 Tips on How to Market Your Book for Free:

Detailed Plans and Smart Strategies for Your Book’s Success 

eBook and Print available worldwide through this universal link:

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"I liked the author's tips on how to build online relationships.  As someone who avoids social media, (it has been the bane of my author existence).  I really appreciated how the author breaks down how to work on social media.  Short, to the point, succinct.  Finally, I get it!  I am so excited to implement so many of these ideas.  I was also thrilled to read the section on how to pitch to television and radio.  Another superb writer's resource book from an excellent author."

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FOTOLIA is Now Part of Adobe Stock

Fotolia's website will close next year, on 5 November 2019, less than a year from now, moving to Adobe Stock. Fotolia was offering for more than 13 years curated collections of high-quality images, graphics, videos, and more from the world's leading creative community. 

Here is an excerpt of their press release:

"Adobe Stock offers a unified, powerful platform for buying royalty-free stock assets. Here are some feature details:

You get the vast majority of content from Fotolia and more, over 120 million assets, including Premium Collection images from leading artists, videos, 3D assets, and design templates.

Just as on Fotolia, you can buy stock photos directly from the Adobe Stock website. You can also browse and buy from within Adobe Creative Cloud apps (including Photoshop CC) and also within Microsoft PowerPoint.

You can search using keywords like you did on Fotolia, and you can also use features powered by Adobe Sensei AI to find images that are similar to other images, search for images based on aesthetic characteristics and more."

From their FAQ's

Do I need to upload all my files again after I synced my account to Adobe Stock?

No. All your accepted content remains available on both the Fotolia and Adobe Stock sites whether or not you sync your Fotolia account with Adobe Stock. Syncing your Fotolia account allows you to upload and manage your content, view your sales, and request payouts on the Adobe Stock Contributor portal.

What will happen to my rank?

You will retain your rank. The rank determines the royalties for Fotolia credit sales and the minimum payout for large subscription packs on Adobe Stock.

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Jetzt auch im PRINT Format: TRAUMBERUF PILOT?

Piloten Ausbildung, Jobsuche und Berufsalltag

Alles was Sie als angehender Pilot wissen müssen, finden Sie in diesem praktischen Ratgeber – der “Bibel” für Airline, Berufs- und Helikopterpiloten.  Dank der JAR FCL sind die europaweit die Lizenzen weitgehend vereinheitlicht, sodass nicht nur (künftige) Piloten in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz von diesem Buch profitieren, sondern auch deutschsprachige Luftfahrt Enthusiasten aus allen anderen europäischen Ländern.
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Laut einer Schulabgängerumfrage lag die Tätigkeit als Pilot an dritter Stelle von allen Wunschberufen.  Das bedeutet dass sich hunderttausende junger Leute für den Pilotenberuf interessieren - aber nirgendwo eine umfassende, professionelle und unabhängige Beratung finden.
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Das Buch ”Traumberuf Pilot?” gliedert sich in drei Bereiche: 

Im ersten Teil werden die Einsatzmöglichkeiten für Berufspiloten erklärt und der Berufsalltag beschrieben. Vom Nachtfracht-Piloten und Helikopterpiloten, über den Executive-Flieger bis hin zum Langstreckenpilot und dem Testpiloten und Fluglehrer berichten Cockpit-Crews über ihren Arbeitsbereich und den Pilotenalltag.
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Der zweite Abschnitt beschreibt Ausbildungswege in Europa nach den neuesten europäischen Ausbildungsvorschriften, den JAR-FCL’s, aber auch den Ausbildungsmöglichkeiten in Canada, Australien, Süd Afrika und den USA - inklusive der Vorschriften für die Lizenzumschreibung - beschrieben. Es wird ausführlich auch auf die Ausbildung “ab initio” - die durchgehende Ausbildung - oder die Kombination mit einem Studium eingegangen.
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Im letzten Teil werden Berufschancen besprochen, DLR Pilotentest-Vorbereitungskurse erklärt, Ausbildungskosten aufgelistet, Gehälter - weltweit - benannt, Möglichkeiten der Jobsuche aufgezeigt - mit einer umfassenden Adressenliste für Ihre Bewerbung inklusive der derzeit eingesetzten Fluggeräte von europäischen Airlines und gewerblichen Luftfahrtunternehmen.
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Und es werden natürlich auch hilfreiche Bewerbungs- und Vorstellungstips gegeben. Im Anhang wird der Luftfahrtjargon entschlüsselt und Abkürzungen werden erklärt, sowie zahlreiche Suchmöglichkeiten für die weitere Online Recherche für den Leser aufgelistet.
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Für dieses umfangreiche und alle Aspekte der Berufsfliegerei umfassende Informationswerk waren jahrelange Recherchen und zahllosen Interviews notwendig. Eigene Erfahrungen als Berufspilotin und Fluglehrerin runden die Informationen ab. Vor- und vor allem Nachteile dieses Berufes werden detailliert beschrieben.
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Anforderungen der Flugschulen, Ausbildungswege, Marktchancen und ein komplettes Adressenverzeichnis von europäischen Ausbildungsbetrieben und von den gewerblichen Luftverkehrsgesellschaften, sowie Tips zur Vorbereitung auf den Einstellungstest bei der DLR und die Stellensuche sollen künftigen PilotInnen bei der Entscheidungsfindung helfen. Ein umfangreicher Index erleichtert die Suche und das Vertiefen einzelner für Piloten interessanter Themen.
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Um den Lesern einen objektiven Leitfaden an die Hand zu geben, wurden natürlich auch besonders die weniger positiven Seiten des Berufes detailliert aufgezeigt. Diese "Bibel für angehende Piloten” geht nicht nur auf die europäische Piloten-Ausbildung und die Berufsmöglichkeiten ein, sondern will auch die weltweiten Perspektiven aufzeigen.
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Die Autorin Doris Daily war selbst viele Jahre als Berufspilotin und Fluglehrerin in Europa und den USA tätig, verlegte ein Luftfahrtmagazin, und schrieb freiberuflich über Luftfahrtthemen, bis hin zu einem Ausbildungswerk für Simulatoren. 

Traumberuf Pilot?
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Draft2Digital Distributes Print Books

Draft2Digital is thrilled to announce D2D Print! Authors can be wait-listed for the D2D Print Beta!  D2D will email you when they are ready for you to join

Draft2Digital explains:
“Right now we are beta testing our new print on demand (POD) service, finding and eliminating any bugs and technical challenges, and making this a resource that will help you expand your author business in an exciting way!

Unlike some POD services, D2D Print will have no upgrade fees, no recurring fees, and delivers low-cost author copies.

We’ll also offer some pretty amazing features, including:

• Cover Converter—If you need a print-ready version of your eBook cover, we’ll generate one for you automatically!
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BOOK REVIEW: 111 Tips to Get FREE Book Reviews

Emily-Jane Hills Orford for Readers' Favorite:
"You’ve published your first book.  Congratulations.  Self-published or traditionally published, the work is not done.  Not yet.  If people don’t know about your book, it’s not going to sell.  Plain and simple.  You could go all out and hire an expensive publicist.  You could pay for all kinds of publicity ads and blog tours.  You could travel the world at your own expense and do signings and readings.  All very expensive options…" Read more:
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How About Seeking Book Reviews?
"Paid reviews or free reviews, the result is the same: more publicity.  Quite simply, reviews sell books.  But where do you find these book reviewers?  Is it fair to ask friends and family?  Sure, but will they be unbiased?  Will they even do it?"
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"There are thousands of book bloggers and book reviewers out there.  All you need is a comprehensive guide to help you find the reviewers you need.  Doris-Maria Heilmann’s 111 Tips to Get FREE Book Reviews: Best Strategies for Getting Lots of Great Reviews is the perfect guide to help you find the right reviewers for your book."
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"This guidebook is full of useful tricks of the book industry to help you prepare your book and media package to send out to potential reviewers.  As well as the long list of tips - 111 as the title suggests) -  there are 1,200 potential online review sites to study, links that will give you the information you need to submit your book for reviews.  A must-have guide for all authors."
https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/111-tips-to-get-free-book-reviews

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More Books by Doris-Maria Heilmann:
111 Tips to Create Impressive Videos:
How to Plan, Create, Upload and Market Videos
https://www.books2read.com/u/3GYnpa

111 Tips To Make Money With Writing
The Art of Making a Living Full-time Writing
An Essential Guide for More Income as Freelancer
https://books2read.com/u/bWZMjz

111 Tips on How to Market Your Book for Free:
Detailed Plans and Smart Strategies for Your Book’s Success
https://books2read.com/u/bMre1a

111 Tips to Create Your Book Trailer
How to Create, Where to Upload and How to Market Your Videos
https://books2read.com/u/mVZkjr

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How to Make More Money From Writing

Ghostwriting - Making Money by Being Invisible 

Tired of earning a pittance (or nothing at all) from your own writing?
Learn how to get started in ghostwriting - a worthwhile career that lets you set your own hours.  Earn a full-time income or be a part-time "ghost" while you work on your novel. 

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Writing for the Web - Is it for You? 

Writing content for websites can give you a nice little sideline (while you're working on your novel) or you can build it into a whole new career.  It may be something you'd never thought of - which is understandable.  Nobody thinks much about who's behind those millions of words on the World Wide Web. 

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Writing and Selling Your Own E-Learning Course 

Lots of people with a hobby or special interest have thought about starting up a newsletter or a blog, and this is an excellent way to attract a following. However, if you really know what you're talking about, then you could turn your knowledge into a nice little business - by writing an e-course on it. Or ever a series of e-courses. 

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Working for Guru or oDesk.com as a Freelance Writer 

Thinking of dipping your toe into the water and working for Guru.com or oDesk.com?  These two professional sites make it easy for employers and freelancers to connect, collaborate and get work done flexibly and securely.

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Competent writers have a cornucopia of opportunities to make money.  Check out these different writing 'trails' that can earn you a very good income and get all the necessary links in our latest book 

111 Tips How to Make Money With Writing - available at B&N, Kobo, and everywhere else: books2read.com/u/me21xl - or Amazon worldwide: 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078K6W3HL/

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Women Power: Who Runs the World?

Who runs the world?  148 women, you can take as your role models. 
We have made a canon.  This is the thing that usually says which male artists, scientists, thinkers are necessary for the world. 
But not with us!  Let's start with the canon of women in Science:

• Florence Nightingale, a nurse, invents the visualization of data material.
• Getrude Belle Elion, pioneer of chemotherapy
• Hedy Lamarr invented the frequency hopping method in 1941.
• Hildegard von Bingen, Benedictine, abbess, poet, composer, universal scholar
• Jane Goodall, a behavioral scientist, studied the behavior of chimpanzees.
• Josephine Cochrane invented the hand-operated dishwasher in 1872.
• Maria Sibylla Merian, natural scientist, and artist
• In 1947 Maria Telkes develops the solar heating system for single-family houses.
• Marie Curie, Nobel Laureate in Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911)
• Shirley Ann Jackson, physicist. Her research work made mobile faxes, tone dial telephones, solar cells and fiber optic cables possible.
• Tabitha Babbitt invented the circular saw in 1812.
• Ada Lovelace invented the first computer algorithm.
• Alice H. Parker developed an adjustable gas heating system in 1919.
  
• Theory and Politics
• Akiko Morimatsu and Mizue Kanno are fighting for better protection against the effects of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima.
• Angela Davis, civil rights activist, philosopher, humane scientist, and writer
• Asli Erdogan, publicist, author of the essay collection "Not even silence still belongs to us".
• Audre Lorde, writer, and activist
• Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, Historian
• bell hooks, literary scholar and advocate of feminist and anti-racist approaches
• Betty Friedan, publicist
• Carola Stern, co-founder of Amnesty International Germany
• Christiane Amanpour, journalist, an international chief-correspondent for CNN
• Elinor Ostrom, a political scientist
• Elisabeth Bronfen, cultural and literary scholar
• Ellen DeGeneres, actress, presenter, comedian and author
• Emma Goldman, anarchist, peace activist, antimilitarist, atheist and feminist theorist
• Eva Illouz, sociologist
• Fatima El-Tayeb, historian and screenwriter
• Femen, feminist artists and protest group critical of the government founded in Kiev in 2008
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Professor of Literary Studies
• Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel
• Grada Kilomba, author, psychologist, theorist, and interdisciplinary artist
• Hannah Arendt, political theorist, and publicist
• Hedwig Dohm, writer, and feminist
• Iris Marion Young, a political scientist
• Ijeoma Oluo, Author
• Joan Didion, journalist, and writer, author of "Das weiße Album" (The White Album)
• Judith Butler, philosopher, and political scientist
• Julia Kristeva, literary theorist, psychoanalyst, writer and philosopher
• Katharina Oguntoye and Dagmar Schultz, authors
• Laurie Penny, journalist, and author
• Lynn Hunt, historian
• Madeleine Albright, former US Secretary of State
• Margaret Bourke-White, Photographer, War Coverage
• Martha Nussbaum, Philosopher, and Professor of Law and Ethics
• Mary Beard, ancient historian, and feminist
• Mary Wollstonecraft, author, philosopher, and feminist
• May Ayim, poet, teacher and activist of the Afro-German Movement
• Michelle Obama, attorney, former First Lady of the United States.
• Naomi Klein, journalist, globalization critic and political activist
• Nellie Bly, journalist, "Ten Days in the Madhouse."
• Noah Sow, author, musician, label operator, activist, media critic, producer and artist
• Olympe de Gouges, revolutionary, women's rights activist, writer, playwright
• Petra Kelly, politician, peace activist and founding member of the Green Party
• Pierra Aiello, a politician, sits for five stars in the Italian Parliament
• Pussy Riot, feminist, government and church critical punk band founded in Moscow in 2011
• Rebecca Solnit, writer, journalist, essayist and cultural historian
• Rosa Luxemburg, theorist, and author
• Silvia Federici, scientist, lecturer, and Marxist radical feminist activist
• Simone de Beauvoir, writer, philosopher and feminist
• Simone Veil, politician, and former French Minister
• Tupoka Ogette, trainer, cultural expert
• Vandana Shiva, scientist, social activist and globalization critic
• Virginia Woolf, writer, "A Room Alone."
• Wendy Brown, a political scientist

Authors

Adrienne Rich, An Atlas of the Difficult World.

Agatha Christie, Miss Marple, and Hercule Poirot

Alison Bechdel, "Fun Home - A Family of Drawn."

Anna Akhmatova, poetry

Anna Seghers, The Seventh Cross.

Arundhati Roy, "The God of Little Things."

Astrid Lindgren, "Pippi Longstocking"

Audre Lorde, "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House"

Azar Nafisi, "Read Lolita in Tehran"

Barbara Yelin, Irmina

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, "More feminism! A Manifesto"

Christine Nöstlinger, "The Fire-Red Friederike"

Elfriede Jelinek, "The Piano Player"

Emily Brontë, "Storm Heights"

George Eliot, Middlemarch.

Grace Metalious, "Peyton Place"

Han Kang, "The Vegetarian."

Harper Lee, "Who's bothering the Nightingale"

Ingeborg Bachmann, "The Hourly Time"

Irmgard Keun, "The Artificial Silk Girl"

Jane Austen, "Emma"

Jeanette Winterson, "Oranges aren't the only fruit."

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter.

Johanna Spyri, "Heidi"

Judith Kerr, "When Hitler stole the pink rabbit."

Margaret Atwood, The Story of the Maid.

Marge Piercy, "The Woman at the Abyss of Time"

Marguerite Duras, The Lover.

Marjane Sartrapi, "Persepolis"

Mary McCarthy, The Clique.

Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

Maya Angelou, "I know why the trapped bird sings."

Nino Haratishvili, "The Eighth Life"

Sylvia Plath, "The Glass Bell"

Suzanne Collins, "The Tributes of Panem"

Virginie Despentes, "Baise-moi - Fuck Me"

Wisawa Szymborska, poetry

Zadie Smith, "Show your teeth"

Art & Culture

Alice Guy-Blaché, film pioneer

Aretha Franklin, soul singer, songwriter, and pianist

Artemisia Gentileschi, painter

Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed, artist

Ava du Vernay, film director, producer and screenwriter

Beyoncé, singer

Carole King, composer, and singer-songwriter

Cher, singer

Cindy Sherman, photo artist

Coco Chanel, fashion designer

Edith Head, costume designer

Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer

Fanny Mendelssohn, composer

Fatima Begum, director

Frida Kahlo, painter

Georgia O'Keeffe, painter

Guerilla Girls, group of artists

Courtney Love, rock singer

Ida Lupino, Actress, Producer, Director, Writer

Jane Campion, Director

Jane Goldman, Screenwriter

Janis Joplin, rock singer

Käthe Kollwitz, graphic artist, painter, sculptor

Kathleen Kennedy, film producer

Kathryn Bigelow, director

Lena Dunham, director, actress, artist, writer

Lynne Ramsay, Director, Screenwriter, Producer

Lynn Hershman Leeson, artist, researcher, filmmaker

Madonna, singer, songwriter

Marina Abramovic, action artist

Martha Argerich, pianist

Meret Oppenheim, Artist

Mira Nair, Director

Missy Elliot, hiphop superstar, and producer

Nina Simone, jazz and blues singer, pianist and songwriter

Pauline Kael, film critic

Pina Bausch, choreographer

Pipilotti Rist, video artist

Sofia Coppola, Director

Tazuko Sakane, Japanese director-pioneer

Tina Turner, singer

Tove Jansson, writer, comic writer, graphic artist, illustrator, and painter

Valie Export, media artist, performance artist, and filmmaker

Yoko Ono, artist, peace and human rights activist

How and Where to Find and Read Apple's iBooks

Even though I am using Mac computers for almost thirty years, I was struggling to find (my own) ebooks on the Apple website - because it's just not possible to browse them on the internet.  Only after I read a fantastic article by Piotr Kowalczyk on his website I discovered how Apple's iBook system works: 

"In recent years, many new users enter the Apple ecosystem not by buying a Mac computer, but a mobile device – iPad or iPhone.

If you decided iBooks would be your book-reading app, make sure that you will never want to get the books you bought in the iBooks Store to the computer. Because you won’t access them until you buy a Mac.

Apple’s proposal for book readers is similar to what Henry Ford coined: “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.”  Any user can read ebooks on any device as long as it’s made by Apple:

• iPhone
• iPad
• iPod Touch
• Mac

The app is included by default (and not removable) on every device with iOS 8, and OS X Yosemite. The books can be synced via your iCloud account.

If you downloaded iTunes app to your Windows-powered computer in order to manage your music library, don’t try to find the book section. It’s not there.
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You Can’t Read Books in the Browser
Amazon offers an access to Kindle books via the web browser. Maybe Apple does the same?

No. You can’t access, manage and read the books from your iBooks library using the web browser. This is not an option to PC users started to convert to Apple via iPhone or iPad.

Access via the web browser is very helpful if you seriously think about using digital textbooks to learn. Some things just have to be done on a bigger screen with a full-size keyboard.

Apple puts a lot of stress on the textbooks and using their devices in education, but only the richest students, the ones who can afford iPads and Macs, can study this way.

If you want to access your books and textbooks literally from any device (nowadays, any device has a browser), you should consider Amazon Kindle or Google Play Books.

iBooks Store Does NOT Have a Web Store
When you think of an online store, you are sure it can be found on Google and accessed from a web browser. Not the iBooks Store.  Apple hates browsers to the point, where you can’t access the iBooks Store this way. The only way is via iBooks app or iTunes."

Read the whole article what you need to know about the iBook store here:

https://ebookfriendly.com/things-to-know-about-ibooks-store/

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