More than once I’ve been told to incorporate my business. .”Nah,” I’ve thought. “I’m small. I’ll remain a sole proprietorship.” However, when I consider the risks, I know I need to make that change…and fast. While attending BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Los Angeles, CA this past November, I met Nellie Akalp, the CEO [...]
I’ve been harping on how blogging a book builds platform and, by so doing, helps you get noticed by publishers and agents and sell more books. However, there’s another great outcome that can be achieved by blogging a book—or by simply blogging: you can boost your career and make more money. How? By being perceived [...]
One of the thing writers do really well is produce content. That’s a great thing in today’s online market, because the best way to promote and market their books comes down to producing great content and lots of it–and knowing where to place it on the Internet. By strategically using content in cyberspace, a writer [...]
Yesterday I was working with a client on focusing her memoir. To me the beginning middle and end of her story seemed so clear. The symbolism was all there, even in her title, and it carried all the way through. She couldn’t see it. That’s why I ask my clients to take the time to [...]
Saturday I received a comment on my Redroom blog post–the same one as Friday’s post here at Write Nonfiction NOW! about writing for free. A reader said she thought we should worry less about getting paid and more about living “writers’ lives.” I queried back, “What is the ‘writer’s life’?” I wonder about this. Yes, [...]
I have read more articles and blog posts about why writers should become indie authors lately. I’ve written my share as well. (You can read them by looking in the self-publishing and e-book categories of this blog.) However, it strikes me that while these articles and posts, even the one I wrote yesterday that features [...]
After I published this post yesterday, today I saw this article announcing that Amanda Hocking had, indeed, signed a four-book deal with St. Martin’s Press in New York, reportedly for $2 million. As she said in her blog, she’s a writer: “I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling emails, formatting covers, [...]
With the New Year fast approaching, it’s time to consider the writing projects and platform building you didn’t finish in 2010 and make them a priority for 2011.What projects have remained on your to-do list all year long, part of the year, or even just this past month? It’s time to make them top priority. [...]
More often than not, the clients who hire me to help them with their book proposals have plenty of passion about their subjects and projects. They may even feel a deep sense of purpose and determination. They really want to finish their books and get them published. Yet, most of them have not spent enough [...]
Today we turn our attention to branding, a subject many writers never consider. In their desire to just be writers they once again forget that to have a successful career as any type of a writer, including as authors, they must also be good businesspeople. This means acting as if their writing activities and written [...]
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