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Dorchester Publishing, a mass-market romance publisher, is going all digital as of September. Read the Publisher’s Weekly article.

From Publishers Weekly: 7% of books published generate 87% of book sales. And 93% of all published books sell less than 1,000 copies each. Here’s the PW article it’s from.

From Robert Brewer’s blog Poetic Asides:
For today’s prompt, write a letting go poem. The poem could be about letting go of a relationship; it could be about letting go of anger; it could be about letting go of a tree branch; or it could even be about, yes, letting go of this April challenge. There [...]

From Robert Brewer’s blog Poetic Asides:
For today’s prompt, I want you to take the phrase “And Suddenly (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write the poem. Some examples: “And suddenly we were lost,” “And suddenly over,” “And suddenly banana,” “And suddenly [...]

From Robert Brewer’s blog Poetic Asides:
For today’s prompt, write an end of the line poem. Maybe the narrator of your poem is at the end of his or her line. Other possible lines that have an end: assembly lines, phone lines, power lines, rail lines, graph lines, dotted lines, waiting lines, lines of poetry, etc. [...]

From Robert Brewer’s blog Poetic Asides:
Wow! After today, we’ll be a mere three days from the end of this challenge. Today is a two for Tuesday prompt, so you’ve got two options:
1. Write a hopeful poem.
2. Write a hopeless poem.

From Robert Brewer’s blog Poetic Asides:
I make all the prompts for these challenges in advance of the actual month. It’s often hard enough to write a poem each day, so I don’t want to freeze up on creating prompts, too. However, I do often make a few adjustments as the challenge plays out. Such is [...]

From Robert Brewer’s blog Poetic Asides:
For today’s prompt, write a poem inspired by a song. Be sure to include the song and artist (if known) with your poem, so that we can all make our own mix CDs to write poetry.

From Robert Brewer’s blog Poetic Asides:
For today’s prompt, write an evening poem. My initial thought is that this poem would somehow involve the night, but upon further reflection, I guess it could be about evening things up or something.