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Can someone please help me with the abbreviations. The above poster referred to PA and POD. She says "don't go with PA." Fine, I'll avoid it like the plague. But what is it. Also, POD only makes me think of COD. I welcome your responses

AW has some wonderful FAQs. A whole subforum of them.

http://absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?241878-FAQ-The-Absolute-Write-Dictionary

http://absolutewrite.com/forums/sho...estions-and-Suggestions-for-the-AW-Dictionary
 

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Thank you all for this thread. I have a question about PA: What is it? There is a bit of discussion here about PA, but nothing to suggest what that acronym stands for. I feel that I'm being warned away from something, but I don't know what that something is! Pardon my ignorance, I'm new to a lot of this, and sometimes it's as if I came into the theater when the movie was already half over ...
 

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Thank you all for this thread. I have a question about PA: What is it? There is a bit of discussion here about PA, but nothing to suggest what that acronym stands for. I feel that I'm being warned away from something, but I don't know what that something is! Pardon my ignorance, I'm new to a lot of this, and sometimes it's as if I came into the theater when the movie was already half over ...

PublishAmerica (later known as America Star Books), a vanity publishing house that was so heinous, it required its own subforum.
 
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