Writer’s Digest editor Jane Friedman reports:

…We also closed the issue before the partnership announcement between Stanza and Smashwords. You’re probably thinking, Why do I care about the partnership of two companies I’ve never heard of?

True, it wasn’t until I had an iPhone that I became really aware of these two companies and understood what was happening.

Here are the basics:

• The iPhone is a mobile device that’s used by nearly 20 million people.
• Stanza is a popular e-book reader you can use on your iPhone (you download it for free directly from your phone).
• Smashwords is a self-publishing company that publishes e-books only. You can use their service without any upfront cost, plus you can make your book available for as little or as much as you want (even for free).
• Smashwords + Stanza means your self-published work can be available to millions of people, or at least the 1 million people who have downloaded the Stanza application onto their iPhones, as of January 2009.

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It’s still day 15 here, though not by much…

My last many blog entries have been my daily report about my book piece posting, and they did not add much content to this blog — beyond the fact that the “write a book in 30 days” process is working. It continues to! If you’re interested in following it, go to the Facebook group.

Every time I write a book, it’s like the first time! This is fun. Come on over to the Facebook group — “Joel’s Book-writing Mastermind group” — and check it out.

Every time I write a book, it’s like the first time! This is fun. Come on over to the Facebook group — “Joel’s Book-writing Mastermind group” — and check it out.

I plan to spend more than the 30-60 minutes a day I’ve been spending on this project. I want to be sure to get to February 10 with a finished book.

I cleared time in the middle of the day to do some writing. I may yet do some more in the evening, but the 47 minutes I devoted to the process just now were very fruitful and satisfying.

I want to write in the morning, but meetings kept me from it today.

It’s going well!

Day 9 – some thoughts, and some more writing

Yesterday was Shabat — the sabbath for Jews. So I did not post an entry in the Facebook group. I did post one today. Check it out.

I planned my day poorly, and had only 42 minutes for writing today. But I feel good about what I did write. And since the structure is all done, I picked a different place than the continuation of yesterday’s writing. The BookProgram™makes it easy to write wherever I feel like writing, any day.