publishing – Jessica Barraco https://judsonlmoore.github.io/jessicabarraco.com/ Wed, 24 Apr 2019 20:10:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9 https://judsonlmoore.github.io/jessicabarraco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/cropped-largebutterfly-32x32.jpg publishing – Jessica Barraco https://judsonlmoore.github.io/jessicabarraco.com/ 32 32 An Inside Look at Book Publishing & Literary Marketing in a Digital World https://judsonlmoore.github.io/jessicabarraco.com/2011/11/11/an-inside-look-at-book-publishing-literary-marketing-in-a-digital-world/ Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:37:26 +0000 https://judsonlmoore.github.io/jessicabarraco.com/?p=177 F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, "You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say." These days, it seems like everyone has something to say: the average Joe, celebrities and fantasy enthusiasts with imaginations that put Roald Dahl's witches and candy men to shame. Everyone believes they are bringing something new and exciting to the bookstore shelf, and maybe they are. But the way that value is recognized has morphed. It has moved off the page and into the online space.

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]]> Smell the Coffee, Bachelorette https://judsonlmoore.github.io/jessicabarraco.com/2011/06/14/smell-the-coffee-bachelorette/ https://judsonlmoore.github.io/jessicabarraco.com/2011/06/14/smell-the-coffee-bachelorette/#respond Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:46:33 +0000 https://judsonlmoore.github.io/jessicabarraco.com/?p=103 Dear Friends, My best friend visited a few weeks ago and we met these two married men out. Of course, they hid their rings in their pockets as per usual bar-etiquette goes. Classy. One of them took some interest in my writing that he never followed through with, and the other told my friend he worked in the coffee business, but that he hates Starbucks and Coffee Bean. “That was the end of our conversation,” my friend later told me. […]

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]]> https://judsonlmoore.github.io/jessicabarraco.com/2011/06/14/smell-the-coffee-bachelorette/feed/ 0 Singles: Don’t mope on Valentine’s Day https://judsonlmoore.github.io/jessicabarraco.com/2010/02/11/singles-dont-mope-on-valentines-day/ https://judsonlmoore.github.io/jessicabarraco.com/2010/02/11/singles-dont-mope-on-valentines-day/#respond Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:25:30 +0000 https://judsonlmoore.github.io/jessicabarraco.com/?p=36 Originally published in the Denver Post [source] On Sunday, couples will celebrate Valentine’s Day with cards, flowers, sweets and intimate dates. Singles will bide their time till Monday. The highly publicized day for sweethearts can cause a self-esteem blow to those who are unattached. While some try to avoid it or revel in “Single Awareness Day” activities instead, the best way to deal with it is to learn how to romance yourself, relationship experts say. “I remember when I made […]

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]]> https://judsonlmoore.github.io/jessicabarraco.com/2010/02/11/singles-dont-mope-on-valentines-day/feed/ 0 The Boulderado a favorite haunt https://judsonlmoore.github.io/jessicabarraco.com/2007/10/30/the-boulderado-a-favorite-haunt/ https://judsonlmoore.github.io/jessicabarraco.com/2007/10/30/the-boulderado-a-favorite-haunt/#respond Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:24:08 +0000 https://judsonlmoore.github.io/jessicabarraco.com/?p=34 Originally published as a Special to The Denver Post [source] The first time Beverly Silva felt a ghostly presence in the Hotel Boulderado was in the 1980s. She was a housekeeper then, and as she began to make a bed in Suite 302, the television suddenly turned on. “This was in the days when we didn’t even have remote controls,” she says, her eyes widening. “I looked to see if maybe when I gathered the dirty sheets if I had […]

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