<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4617232539623688667</id><updated>2012-02-03T16:41:49.978-08:00</updated><category term='literature'/><category term='book launch'/><category term='Write Now'/><category term='how to write'/><category term='writing tips'/><category term='travel'/><category term='books'/><category term='writer'/><category term='The Fiction Writer: Get Published'/><category term='Pixl Press'/><category term='environment'/><category term='Canadian publishing'/><category term='nina munteanu'/><category term='guidebooks'/><category term='writing'/><category term='the Passionate Writer'/><category term='writers'/><category term='science'/><category term='publishing'/><title type='text'>Pixl Press</title><subtitle type='html'>Excellence in Publishing</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pixlpress.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4617232539623688667/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pixlpress.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>SF Girl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00311070435293186699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xoBIPoObedw/S7fZrkwnpPI/AAAAAAAAD9c/l-IwpIr_H5w/S220/nina-NS-prospect.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>4</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4617232539623688667.post-1411740777256269316</id><published>2009-02-06T08:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-06T08:16:38.442-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pixl Press'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Fiction Writer: Get Published'/><title type='text'>The Fiction Writer: Get Published, Write Now!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xoBIPoObedw/SYxiWIMDsHI/AAAAAAAADRs/XBhc0uxJfOw/s1600-h/chapters-victoria.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299718993802932338" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xoBIPoObedw/SYxiWIMDsHI/AAAAAAAADRs/XBhc0uxJfOw/s320/chapters-victoria.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now REALLY Available!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Despite the soft launch on December 13, 2008, of the Pixl Press website and pre-order availability of The Fiction Writer, the book didn't make it from the printer to the shop until early January, 2009. Those who pre-ordered in December were among the first to get the book, which may become a collector's item as it (from a small initial print run) may still bear the 2008 copyright. The book is officially a 2009 book with Library and Archives Canada, having been issued in January 2009. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4617232539623688667-1411740777256269316?l=pixlpress.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pixlpress.blogspot.com/feeds/1411740777256269316/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4617232539623688667&amp;postID=1411740777256269316' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4617232539623688667/posts/default/1411740777256269316'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4617232539623688667/posts/default/1411740777256269316'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pixlpress.blogspot.com/2009/02/fiction-writer-get-published-write-now.html' title='The Fiction Writer: Get Published, Write Now!'/><author><name>SF Girl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00311070435293186699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xoBIPoObedw/S7fZrkwnpPI/AAAAAAAAD9c/l-IwpIr_H5w/S220/nina-NS-prospect.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xoBIPoObedw/SYxiWIMDsHI/AAAAAAAADRs/XBhc0uxJfOw/s72-c/chapters-victoria.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4617232539623688667.post-3480455866526682213</id><published>2008-12-14T00:00:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-06T08:06:06.819-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='guidebooks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='book launch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='how to write'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pixl Press'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='books'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='writing tips'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Fiction Writer: Get Published'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Write Now'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='publishing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='writing'/><title type='text'>Pixl Press Launches "The Fiction Writer: Get Published, Write Now!"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xoBIPoObedw/SUS_xJgR53I/AAAAAAAADGc/b6z0AbB-VAE/s1600-h/MunteanuFictionWriterCover02-cropped.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279555514270869362" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 201px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xoBIPoObedw/SUS_xJgR53I/AAAAAAAADGc/b6z0AbB-VAE/s320/MunteanuFictionWriterCover02-cropped.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Now Available for pre-order at &lt;a href="http://www.pixlpresscanada.com/catalog/index.php?osCsid=01981eab300e78198512720d1a3d6917"&gt;Pixl Press&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Fiction Writer: Get Published Now!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; launched yesterday, &lt;strong&gt;December 13th, 2008&lt;/strong&gt;, at a party held by &lt;strong&gt;Pixl Press&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4617232539623688667-3480455866526682213?l=pixlpress.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pixlpress.blogspot.com/feeds/3480455866526682213/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4617232539623688667&amp;postID=3480455866526682213' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4617232539623688667/posts/default/3480455866526682213'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4617232539623688667/posts/default/3480455866526682213'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pixlpress.blogspot.com/2008/12/now-available-at-pixl-press-fiction.html' title='Pixl Press Launches &quot;The Fiction Writer: Get Published, Write Now!&quot;'/><author><name>SF Girl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00311070435293186699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xoBIPoObedw/S7fZrkwnpPI/AAAAAAAAD9c/l-IwpIr_H5w/S220/nina-NS-prospect.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xoBIPoObedw/SUS_xJgR53I/AAAAAAAADGc/b6z0AbB-VAE/s72-c/MunteanuFictionWriterCover02-cropped.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4617232539623688667.post-870240779493031730</id><published>2008-12-01T19:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-14T00:13:55.378-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Canadian publishing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pixl Press'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='books'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the Passionate Writer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='publishing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='writing'/><title type='text'>Pixl Press Canada, Excellence in Publishing</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xoBIPoObedw/STS2RxD_vGI/AAAAAAAADEE/Et4SlQZQQSQ/s1600-h/writer06.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275041479901822050" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 238px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xoBIPoObedw/STS2RxD_vGI/AAAAAAAADEE/Et4SlQZQQSQ/s320/writer06.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Pixl Press&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is a Publishing House in Vancouver, Canada. Currently, we publish non-fiction books, DVDs and audiobooks (&lt;a href="http://www.pixlpresscanada.com/"&gt;http://www.pixlpresscanada.com/&lt;/a&gt;). At some point in the future we may consider fiction (e.g., science fiction, fantasy, romance, thrillers).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pixl Press specializes in guidebooks on:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;fiction and non-fiction writing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;blogging &amp;amp; internet use &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;science for the non-scientific &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;travel &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;the environment. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;We also publish books on nature, philosophy and art.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;NEW!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Look for our books in &lt;strong&gt;"The Alien's Guidebook Series":&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Fiction Writer: Get Published, Write Now! -- available December 13th, 2008&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Alien's Guide to Cool Blogging -- available spring, 2009&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Alien's Dictionary of Commonly Used Writing Terms -- available summer, 2009&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Alien's Cool Guide to Social Networking -- available fall, 2009&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Coming Soon!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xoBIPoObedw/STS59nCeirI/AAAAAAAADEU/5TM8uFtz3x4/s1600-h/spiral-whirlpool-galaxy2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275045531660225202" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 246px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xoBIPoObedw/STS59nCeirI/AAAAAAAADEU/5TM8uFtz3x4/s320/spiral-whirlpool-galaxy2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;The Fiction Writer:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Get Published, Write Now!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;--the first of &lt;strong&gt;the Alien's Guidebook Series on Writing and Publishing&lt;/strong&gt; by Nina Munteanu and various other writers &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A practical writer's guide for the beginner writer from an erudite Alien's perspective, with easy to adopt instruction guaranteed to improve your writing here or in any other galaxy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;(release date &lt;strong&gt;December 13, 2008&lt;/strong&gt;. CD/US$17.95 (PDF); $27.95 (print). Pre-order at &lt;a href="http://www.pixlpresscanada.com/"&gt;http://www.pixlpresscanada.com/&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="mailto:info@pixlpresscanada.com"&gt;info@pixlpresscanada.com&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here's what some readers have said about Nina's helpful tips: &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"Beautifully informative!" -- Brady Frost, blogger &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"Great points; this is an inspiration for me. It's so motivating to read...and get hyped for the work ahead." -- Blackburn, blogger and writer &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"Great writing lessons! They are practical and simple for any budding writer." -- Graham Seager, blogger &amp;amp; writer&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xoBIPoObedw/SMOINOkymXI/AAAAAAAACDA/4H4oEYe2mGQ/s1600-h/spiral-whirlpool-galaxy2.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xoBIPoObedw/STS4bAtvv0I/AAAAAAAADEM/J8euhanFEMc/s1600-h/nina-paris05.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275043837745545026" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 266px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xoBIPoObedw/STS4bAtvv0I/AAAAAAAADEM/J8euhanFEMc/s320/nina-paris05.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;About the author:&lt;/strong&gt; Nina is &lt;a href="http://www.thepassionatewriter.com/"&gt;The Passionate Writer&lt;/a&gt;. She has published short stories all over the planet (with translations by magazines into Greek, Romanian, Polish, and Hebrew. Her latest novel, “&lt;a href="http://www.darwinsparadox.com/"&gt;Darwin’s Paradox&lt;/a&gt;” (a science fiction ecological thriller by Dragon Moon Press), explores humanity’s co-evolution with machine intelligence and Nature’s intelligence. She also writes critical essays and reviews, several of which have appeared in &lt;em&gt;Strange Horizons&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;IROSF&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;The New York Review of Science Fiction&lt;/em&gt;. Nina is a regularly invited speaker at science and writers conferences, book clubs, schools and universities. Nina served for a time as assistant editor-in-chief of Imagikon, a Romanian webzine and is contributing writer of &lt;a href="http://www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/sfgirl"&gt;Suite 101&lt;/a&gt;, an international online newsmagazine. You can visit Nina’s award-winning blog, &lt;a href="http://sfgirl-thealiennextdoor.blogspot.com/"&gt;The Alien Next Door&lt;/a&gt;, which hosts lively discussions on pop culture, travel, science, science fiction, writing and philosophy. To book one of Nina's telecourses or online workshops go to &lt;a href="http://www.thepassionatewriter.com/"&gt;http://www.thepassionatewriter.com/&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4617232539623688667-870240779493031730?l=pixlpress.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pixlpress.blogspot.com/feeds/870240779493031730/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4617232539623688667&amp;postID=870240779493031730' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4617232539623688667/posts/default/870240779493031730'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4617232539623688667/posts/default/870240779493031730'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pixlpress.blogspot.com/2008/12/httpwwwpixlpresscanadacom.html' title='Pixl Press Canada, Excellence in Publishing'/><author><name>SF Girl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00311070435293186699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xoBIPoObedw/S7fZrkwnpPI/AAAAAAAAD9c/l-IwpIr_H5w/S220/nina-NS-prospect.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xoBIPoObedw/STS2RxD_vGI/AAAAAAAADEE/Et4SlQZQQSQ/s72-c/writer06.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4617232539623688667.post-6783187756056480891</id><published>2008-09-06T19:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-14T00:18:15.600-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='writers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Canadian publishing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pixl Press'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='environment'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='writer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='publishing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nina munteanu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='literature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='writing'/><title type='text'>Pixl Press Canada, Excellence in Publishing</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xoBIPoObedw/SMNMft9PytI/AAAAAAAACCo/7dfTvpX0pHQ/s1600-h/writer06.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243118498985528018" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xoBIPoObedw/SMNMft9PytI/AAAAAAAACCo/7dfTvpX0pHQ/s320/writer06.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pixl Press&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is a publishing house in Vancouver, Canada. We publish non-fiction and fiction books, DVDs and audiobooks (&lt;a href="http://www.pixlpresscanada.com/"&gt;http://www.pixlpresscanada.com/&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Non-Fiction:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pixl Press specializes in guidebooks on:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;writing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;science for the non-scientific&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;nature&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;art&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;travel &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;the environment. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;We also publish books on nature and philosophy &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fiction:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pixl Press may eventually publish science fiction, thrillers and romance books and the occasional children's book.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coming Soon!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xoBIPoObedw/SUTA3q6_30I/AAAAAAAADGk/yvbJIkSKzjU/s1600-h/MunteanuFictionWriterCover02-cropped.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279556725832146754" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 201px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xoBIPoObedw/SUTA3q6_30I/AAAAAAAADGk/yvbJIkSKzjU/s320/MunteanuFictionWriterCover02-cropped.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The Fiction Writer: Get Published, Write Now!&lt;/strong&gt; by Nina Munteanu&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A practical writer's guide for the beginner writer from an erudite Alien's perspective, with easy to adopt instruction guaranteed to improve your writing here or in any other galaxy.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;(release date December 13, 2008. CD/US$17.95 (PDF) $27.95 (Print). Pre-order at &lt;a href="http://www.pixlpresscanada.com/"&gt;http://www.pixlpresscanada.com/&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="mailto:info@pixlpresscanada.com"&gt;info@pixlpresscanada.com&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here's what some readers have said about Nina's helpful tips:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Beautifully informative!"&lt;/strong&gt; -- Brady Frost, blogger&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Great points; this is an inspiration for me. It's so motivating to read...and get hyped for the work ahead."&lt;/strong&gt; -- Blackburn, blogger and writer&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Great writing lessons! They are practical and simple for any budding writer."&lt;/strong&gt; -- Graham Seager, blogger &amp;amp; writer&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xoBIPoObedw/SMOINOkymXI/AAAAAAAACDA/4H4oEYe2mGQ/s1600-h/spiral-whirlpool-galaxy2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243184152021473650" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xoBIPoObedw/SMOINOkymXI/AAAAAAAACDA/4H4oEYe2mGQ/s200/spiral-whirlpool-galaxy2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;About the author:&lt;/strong&gt; Nina has published short stories all over the planet (with translations by magazines into Greek, Romanian, Polish, and Hebrew. Her latest novel, “&lt;a href="http://www.darwinsparadox.com/"&gt;Darwin’s Paradox&lt;/a&gt;” (a science fiction ecological thriller by &lt;em&gt;Dragon Moon Press&lt;/em&gt;), explores humanity’s co-evolution with machine intelligence and Nature’s intelligence. She also writes critical essays and reviews, several of which have appeared in &lt;em&gt;Strange Horizons&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;IROSF,&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The New York Review of Science Fiction&lt;/em&gt;. Nina is a regularly invited speaker at science and writers conferences, book clubs, schools and universities. Nina served for a time as assistant editor-in-chief of Imagikon, a Romanian webzine and is contributing writer of Suite 101, an international online newsmagazine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can visit Nina’s award-winning blog, &lt;a href="http://sfgirl-thealiennextdoor.blogspot.com/"&gt;The Alien Next Door&lt;/a&gt;, which hosts lively discussions on pop culture, travel, science, science fiction, writing and philosophy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4617232539623688667-6783187756056480891?l=pixlpress.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pixlpress.blogspot.com/feeds/6783187756056480891/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4617232539623688667&amp;postID=6783187756056480891' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4617232539623688667/posts/default/6783187756056480891'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4617232539623688667/posts/default/6783187756056480891'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pixlpress.blogspot.com/2008/09/pixl-press-is-publishing-company-in.html' title='Pixl Press Canada, Excellence in Publishing'/><author><name>SF Girl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00311070435293186699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xoBIPoObedw/S7fZrkwnpPI/AAAAAAAAD9c/l-IwpIr_H5w/S220/nina-NS-prospect.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xoBIPoObedw/SMNMft9PytI/AAAAAAAACCo/7dfTvpX0pHQ/s72-c/writer06.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
