Crowdfunding in publishing has received a lot of attention in recent months. Successful crowd-funder and author Chris Stollar shares his tips for realistic and practical tips to make crowdfunding work for you. CHRISTOPHER STOLLAR MAY 14, 2022 Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and Patreon remain three of the most popular crowdfunding platforms for publishing. Each site has its own…
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Read More 10 Ways to Stop Porch Pirates from Stealing Your PackagesThe Normalization of White Male Violence Seven summers ago, when Dylann Roof killed nine parishioners in a Charleston church, he signaled that perhaps white millennials would not, in fact, be more racially progressive than their parents or grandparents. Here, again, the hard truth that progress is not linear: Payton Gendron, the Buffalo shooter, is 18 years old…
Read More White Male Violence NormalizedBy Michael Duffy Washington Post Opinions editor-at-large We are witnessing something of a watershed moment in the reckoning America is having with itself and its history. Harvard University released a 134-page report Tuesday that begins to explain how, as Post columnist Eugene Robinson put it, “the nation’s oldest, richest and most prestigious institution of higher learning” benefited from slavery. Two Harvard…
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Read More Banana Bread Snack CakesGun deaths among children and teens rose by 29 percent in a single year, largely because of an increase in homicides. April 22, 2022, 3:58 AM EDT By Aria Bendix Guns became the leading cause of death among children and teens in 2020, killing more people ages 1 to 19 in the U.S. than vehicle crashes,…
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Read More Make a Little Bit On the SideEvery year, new studies are released on which states are the worst for retirees to reside in, factoring in metrics like affordability, health care, quality of life, crime, and weather. We’ve averaged three recent state rankings to create one master list. Here are the 25 worst states for retirement in 2022. 25 worst states (Don’t forget to…
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