All writers must at some point deal with criticism of their work. Call it constructive criticism, feedback, a critique, a review, or helpful advice, edits, it’s all the same really; the word used may just connote something a bit different or cause us to have a different emotional reaction. Once you show your work to [...]
I have a lot of book projects of varies types started and not finished. It’s my goal to finish some of them this year. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed, especially since I’m learning some new things–like how to format books for Smashwords.com and how to navigate my way through become a self-publisher. So, if you are [...]
On December 31st most people like to go out to parties or do something festive. I like to hunker down and think about the past year and the coming year. I like to set goals and intentions. I think of this as setting targets and figuring out how I’ll hit a bull’s eye in the [...]
You will find a ton of information here in this blog about promoting yourself and your book. Building author platform, of course, involves promotion. Selling books involves promotion. However, most writers don’t want to take on the roll of promoter, marketer, PR specialist, social networker, or anything else along these lines–even though it’s necessary–because these [...]
If you look back over the last 10 days you’ll find a series of posts about building an author’s platform. (It starts here.) If you’ve never done anything to build an author’s platform, you probably feel pretty overwhelmed about now. If you had never heard of an author’s platform prior to the beginning of this [...]
Submitting your work ensures publishing success. I’ve heard it said that you can’t win the lottery if you don’t purchase a ticket. In much the same way, your writing will never be published if you don’t submit it to publishers and publications. How often do you submit or resubmit your work? Do you resend your [...]
I have long been a fan of Elinor Stutz, author of Nice Girls DO Get The Sale: Relationship Building That Gets Results and HIRED! How to use Sales Techniques to Sell Yourself On Interviews. She’s tremendously successful in all that she does—including writing and selling books. As a businesswoman and an author, she has used her book to [...]
When you come home from a conference and think about all the things you need to do—and haven’t yet done or aren’t quite sure how to do—before you try to publish your book, do you feel discouraged? You aren’t alone. After hearing all those speakers and experts tell them what they should or must do [...]
Like the founders of our nation promised, as a writer you have the right to pursue your happiness–and interests–and you do this via the choices you make. As a a writer, you can make choice about what you write.You can write about what you want. In this day and age, you also can choose to [...]
Many aspiring nonfiction authors see a book proposal as a necessary evil. It’s a means to an end. They must write one so their agent can present it to publishers or so they can do so themselves. In fact, both nonfiction writers who plan to become independent publishers (to self-publish their books) and those who [...]
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