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The executive targets his opponents w/bogus investigations. His government disappears people w/out due process and vanishes them beyond reach. He usurps legislative power, controls public funds at will, & consolidates power. Loyalty is expected — or else.

Authoritarianism isn’t coming. It’s here.

The President’s unprecedented Executive Order yesterday targeting Messrs. Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor for nothing but the exercise of their First Amendment rights is the President’s most constitutionally corrupt Executive Order to date.

If you’ve got a question about self-publishing, whether it’s about platforms, formatting, selling direct, KU, or whatever, I’ve got the answer. And if I don’t have the answer, I’ll try my darnedest to find out. Let’s demystify self‑publishing one question at a time!

If you’re new to self-publishing, it can seem overwhelming. Even if you’ve published several books, there’s always something new to learn. With so many aspects, there are lots of questions.

So, today’s our 1st Ask Me Anything!

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What if I ignored the negativity?
What if I stopped worrying what other people think of me?
What if I wrote what inspired me?
What if I trusted myself?
What if I followed my dreams?
What if I took a deep breath, shut out the noise, and wrote?

What if?

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When I stare at the screen or poise pen to page, I have to shut off the “what if no one likes me” nonsense. Instead, I play What if…

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Writing is a solitary practice. Even if I’m in a crowded coffee shop, a library, or taking the Metra into Chicago, I’m putting those words on the screen all by myself.

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This year, I’ve written a LOT. I’m publishing four newsletters, I’m writing my seventh novel, have written ~23,000 words in the thriller I’m ghostwriting, and I journal every single morning.

I’ve got a lot to say.
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And yes, I want you to love my words, to share my words. I want to move you, or make you laugh, or make you think, or simply provide an escape for a minute or two or however long it takes to read whatever I’ve written.

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Whether it is or it isn’t (it is), I’m still going to write. I’m still going to use my voice and string letters into words and words into paragraphs, etc. etc.

Yes, I want people to read my words. You better believe I do.

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I’ll figure it out as I go, I remind myself. If they’re sick of me, they’ll unsubscribe. Some will even report me as spam, which makes me sad, but I’m not everybody’s cuppa. Does anybody even care? DEFINITELY. I know this, because you tell me.

Is this thing on?
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I’m staring at the screen and my throat starts to flutter. It’s that oh-so-familiar tremor of anxiety. What am I going to write? Are they sick of me yet? Does anybody even care? Is this thing on?

And then I shake myself off and start typing.

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I'll be in Daley Plaza in #chicago . Where will you be?

Fighting fears to face the What ifs.

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Forget clothing sizes. You know you've lost a lot of weight when you go down a size in blood pressure cuffs.

It does make sense that the same people who delete the history of the Navajo code talkers would leak national security secrets in a group chat.

Discover stories you never knew about Chicago's most famous museums and landmarks

The museum and school would raise most of the money, the park district would provide the land, and the World’s Fair would kick in $200,000, but only if the building was completed on time.

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Discover stories you never knew about Chicago's most famous museums and landmarks

In 1892, the “temporary” Inter-state Industrial Exposition had been holding court at Michigan and Adams for twenty years. Art Institute President Charles Hutchinson proposed replacing the Expo with a building that both the institute and the fair could use.

Discover stories you never knew about Chicago's most famous museums and landmarks

When the city secured the World’s Columbian Exposition, which was basically a LOOK AT ME coming out party, the Art Institute of Chicago negotiated a win-win plan for another new building. This time, they were in it for keeps.

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To reflect that mission, they renamed it the Art Institute of Chicago, and it outgrew its space multiple times in the next several years.

The demand was so great they went through not one, but two new buildings.

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Seven years later, the Chicago Academy of Design declared bankruptcy and a group of businessmen bought their assets at auction, incorporating as the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.

This new-ish organization enlarged the concept to become an institute with an expansive school and museum.

But even in the mercenary, rapidly expanding city of Chicago, art was necessary, and in 1866, the Chicago Academy of Design began with thirty-five artists.

Within 4 years, the Academy needed more room and moved into a five-story building on Adams Street, but the 1871 fire destroyed the building.

In the mid-1800s, Chicago was consumed with building and the accumulation of wealth and wasn’t exactly known for its culture.  With its stockyards and grain elevators and sewage-filled river, and the people that poured in hoping to make their fortune, it was dirty and it stunk.

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Over the years, that strip of land grew and became more and more desirable, until the park that was supposed to be forever open, clear and free decidedly was not, and by 1890, Michigan Avenue landowners, including Aaron Montgomery Ward, had had enough.
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People would pay more for that lakefront property, so the canal commissioners promised it would be forever open, and houses soon lined the boulevard opposite a narrow strip of sand.

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In 1836, Illinois and Michigan Canal Commissioners raised money to build the waterway by selling parcels of land. A few of those parcels lined Michigan Avenue. It was waterfront real estate, and that meant the same thing in 1836 as it does now: Mo’ money mo’ money mo’ money. 👇

Grant Park is one of Chicago’s most beloved institutions, but creating this public space was no easy task.

It began with a simple notation on a map: “Public Ground—A Common to Remain Forever Open, Clear and Free of any Buildings or Other Obstructions whatever.” 👇

Tesla Recalls ‘Nearly All’ Cybertrucks Ever Built Because a Glued-On Steel Piece Might Fall Off: ‘Prone to Environmental Embrittlement’ More bad news for Tesla came on this week, with a recall announced for nearly all Cybertrucks manufactured so far because a steel panel could come unglued -- creating a potentially dangerous road haza...

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