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It depends on the context and the reason you are using the accent. If the work is to be performed by actors as a play or screenplay, accents are important for those people to get it "right" (which is to say, the way you, the author, meant it to be). Accents should be the spice, not the "meat"...

Show me your stuff I became a publisher (recently) largely because I just don't have the patience to wait for months for agents rejection letters, or the "we think you might do better with another publisher" brush off's. Self-publishing is certainly a route that has lost a lot of the stigma...

I recently wrote a book for children. Although I formed a publishing division of my company to do the publishing, it is published though an "on-demand" publisher so some (most) of the traditional reviewers refuse to even consider reviewing it. Are any of you forum readers also authors who...

We recently published a WW II diary of a fellow whose life was (in one sense remarkably, in another sense, naturally) like the hero of Catch-22, the Joseph Heller novel. This gentleman flew in B-25's from Corsica (same as Heller did a year or two before him), and had many of the same...