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I also offer personally-tailored, individualized English conversation practice (including etiquette) and coaching in writing techniques. Finally, I edit texts such as magazines, business proposals, memorandums, emails so they are presented in English which does not embarrass you or your organization. For further details, please mail me at: language.etiquette@gmail.com

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07 January 2015

Another interesting books story: about the DECLINE of Kindle !

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/11328570/Kindle-sales-have-disappeared-says-UKs-largest-book-retailer.html

James Patterson pours them out, piles them high and pulls in the moolah

A fascinating article about writing today in a peculiarly commercialised form - from a magazine which almost always produces a high standard of literary style itself: Vanity Fair.

If James Patterson interests you as a text generator (hard to imagine as an actual, well, "writer"!), then I highly recommend this article from the current issue of the magazine:

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/01/james-patterson-best-selling-author