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Paul Auster's Man in the Dark is the story of 72-year-old August Brill, who is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. In this INK Q&A, Auster tells us about his literary pilgrimages, how he relaxes, and more!]]>

An astonishingly wise, ambitious, and riveting first novel set in the American community in Cuba during the years leading to Castro's revolution, Telex from Cuba is a masterful debut that will put Rachel Kushner on the map of American fiction. In this INK Q&A, Kushner shares the joys of a paper route, reveals her strangest interaction with a reader, and more!]]>

Angel's Tip is a harrowing stand-alone thriller from former Portland deputy D.A. Alafair Burke, author of the bestselling Samantha Kincaid series. In this INK Q&A, Burke shares which fictional action hero she'd like to date, the origin of her name, and more!]]>

Eminent pollster John Zogby offers The Way We'll Be, an illuminating, fact-filled look at the changing nature of the American Dream and how this is influencing everything — from the politicians people vote for to the goods and services they buy. In this INK Q&A, Zogby shares the favorite breakfast he can't eat anymore, what his favorite historical figures have in common with Larry the Cable Guy, and more!]]>

Elizabeth Peters, author of the bestselling Amelia Peabody novels, returns with The Laughter of Dead Kings, the long-awaited final installment in her beloved contemporary series featuring art historian Vicky Bliss — back for the first time in more than a decade! In this INK Q&A, Peters shares memorable experiences with readers, why one of her novels couldn't be published in Britain, and more!]]>

Michael Meyer's The Last Days of Old Beijing is a fascinating, intimate portrait of Beijing as pictured through the lens of its oldest neighborhood, facing destruction as the city, and China, relentlessly modernizes. In this INK Q&A, Meyer offers five great books about cities, shares his vision of the afterlife, and more!]]>

In Brunonia Barry's debut gothic thriller The Lace Reader, a young woman descended from a long line of mind readers and fortune-tellers returns to her hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, for rest and relaxation. Any tranquility in her life is short-lived, however, when her aunt drowns under mysterious circumstances. In this INK Q&A, Barry shares her favorite places to swim, her delicious cold swordfish breakfast, and more!]]>

The new novel from the author of The Danish Girl and Pasadena, The 19th Wife is a spellbinding work of literary suspense, set against the history of the Mormon Church, that combines historical fiction with a modern-day mystery. "Great fun to read with its enticing characters, swift dialogue, and neatly structured plot," praises Booklist (starred review). ]]>

From the author of Empress comes Alexander and Alestria, an ambitious, richly layered tale of Alexander the Great, which entwines his historical legacy with a fantastic love affair set in a wartime between Western and Eastern civilizations. In this INK Q&A, author Shan Sa discusses the relaxation of talking to trees, her idea of absolute happiness, and more!]]>

In Farewell Navigator, her dazzling premier collection of short stories, Leni Zumas shines a bright light into the far corners of a dark, dreamlike America populated by a cast of characters on the brink of survival. In this INK Q&A, Zumas shares her forbidden love for Ponyboy, what she has in common with Barack Obama, and more.]]>

A brilliantly colorful memoir of becoming a monk, "Turtle Feet" details young music prodigy Nikolai Grozni's spiritual — and not-so-spiritual — journey in India. In this INK Q&A, Grozni shares the strangest job he's ever had, his idea of absolute happiness, and more.]]>

In This Land Is Their Land, bestselling author Barbara Ehrenreich brilliantly dissects one of the cruelest decades in memory — the 2000s — in which she finds a nation scarred by deepening inequality, corroded by distrust, and shamed by its official cruelty. In this INK Q&A, Ehrenreich extols the virtues of working in sweatpants, explains why she dearly hopes she never runs out of novels to read, and more!]]>

William Miller is weakened by his irrepressible crush on his new stepsister, Lulu. Once Lulu departs for college, Will attempts to find himself in Jonathan Evison's debut novel All about Lulu, which Publishers Weekly called "a stunner." In this INK Q&A, Evison shares some truly strange jobs he's held, his vision of the ideal life, and more!]]>

Edward Dolnick, the Edgar Award-winning author of The Rescue Artist, is back with The Forger's Spell, the riveting story of the brilliant con man — "the world's most famous art forger" (the New York Times) — who perpetrated the greatest art hoax of the 20th century. ]]>

Loose Girl is Kerry Cohen's captivating memoir about her descent into promiscuity, and how she gradually found her way toward real intimacy, a story of addiction, and not just to sex. In this INK Q&A, Cohen shares her good book run, hypercritical reader responses to her book, and more!]]>

Forget The Hype!
By Jose Valdez
So you`re new to the internet, and want to learn everything you can about internet marketing. Or at least the essential basics, and you want a place to go to find the answers to all of your questions?

I hate to tell you this, and I`m really sorry, but as far as I know, there IS no one-stop source to learning the essential marketing skills, apart from school maybe, but I will TRY to answer some questions you may have from my own experience:

Let`s see, I started out with absolutely NO computer knowledge at all. Went to chatrooms, talked with people, got me some contacts, then one day I got a junkmail full of hype (that I believed...hehehe) and promptly started joining affiliate programs. I joined this one, that one and the other one, all full of promises that I`d be mega-rich within a few months. Being a newbie, I swallowed it all. Hook, line and sinker. None of it ever panned out right though.

I lost some money, not huge amounts, but more than I`d care to remember, so I started with the free stuff. I didn`t have any knowledge on building downlines and stuff, so that didn`t work neither. Then I started helping people I referred to various things, and things looked slightly better. It was all free stuff that didn`t make me any real money, but it gave me traffic to other free sites I was promoting, I got downlines, and I got contacts, so I knew it was working.

After that, I kinda concentrated on helping everybody I came across, to the point where that was ALL I was doing, and funnily enough, I loved it. Still didn`t make me money, but it made me feel great.

That`s how my ezine came about. I wanted to help people as much as possible, teach them to steer clear of hype, stick dilligently to one thing, and build a good downline in it, whilst showing them how to help each other. You`ll find that any articles I`ve written to date(05/15/03) cover these things.

I will say that there are a couple of "skills" needed for anybody wanting to be an online marketer.

Firstly, you need a touch of "blindness" so you don`t even LOOK at all the hype, because if it LOOKS too good to be true, then it more than likely is.

You need deep concentration, and dedication, to help you stick with one thing, and you need to be able to work really hard at getting that one thing to work.

You also need a lock and key on your wallet. It`s real easy to buy into this that and the other program, and before you know it, you`ve used a LOT more money than you can afford to lose. There`s always a risk that any money you use, could be lost forever, so always keep that in mind.

As for computer jargon, I`ve been online for 4 years, and I`m STILL learning. Actually, I`m only just now starting to learn HTML so that I can publish my ezine without having to rely way too much on my programmer, who by the way, is the greatest teacher on earth. There`s a page here full of "jargon" and links to more info, I find it pretty useful:

href="http://www.imagescape.com/helpweb/history/define.html">http://www.imagescape.com/helpweb/history/define.html

When it comes to suggesting a starting point, that`s a real hard one. I think I`d say chatrooms personally. Without my programmer, and my other friends that I`ve met in chatrooms, I wouldn`t be where I am today. So I`d say THE most important thing when it comes to marketing is your contacts. Get as many contacts as you can, and learn from their mistakes.

Also, subscribe to a few ezines that really cover the "newbie" things. Read everything you can that`s relative to what you want to do. You`ll suffer from information overload, there`s no doubt about that, but some of the stuff WILL stick in your head, and you can start learning from there.

If you find the ezine isn`t giving you the information you need, un-subscribe and move on to the next one. There`s hundreds of thousands of them out there to choose from, just don`t subscribe to too many at once, or you`ll be so inundated with mail that you`ll end up not reading any of them at all.

In closing: Read, read, read, and read some more. Take all promises of "instant wealth" with a pound of salt. (A pinch isn`t enough). Question everything that seems to "over-promise". Learn as much as you can before starting out, be prepared, and remember: There are no stupid questions, just stupid answers ;-)

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