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Summary for Blackbird Rising: A Novel of the American Spirit: At the dawn of the 20th Century, the first city lit by electricity—Buffalo, New York—hosts a dazzling World’s Fair to showcase America’s march into the future. Unknown to organizers, the bold grandsons of a runaway slave plan to conquer the sky during a fateful presidential visit. They intend to show the world that nothing is more powerful than mankind’s oldest dreams—flight and freedom—meeting imagination in an age of possibility.                          

Summary for Publishing Tips: Weekly Strategies for the Independent Writer: Publishing Tips specifies the finer points of publishing as they relate to writing, editing, publishing, having a website and marketing. Clear, concise and helpful, Publishing Tips mirrors the dilettante role of every independent writer, that CEO of one who dreams, creates, and releases his or her work into the world. Publishing Tips follows on the heels of Composition: A Fiction Writer's Guide for the 21st Century, Ms. Lavid's first book on creative writing and publishing. "Consider my first book, Composition, the little black dress, and Publishing Tips, the string of pearls; one a basic, the other an eye-popping accessory."