During the Olympics, we spend a lot of time glued to the television set watching as the athletes succeed and fail. We remember the stories of failure almost as much as the stories off success. The athletes’ trials and tribulations resonate with us. Why? Because we, too, are trying to succeed in our own way–as writers. We enter our own…
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Today’s guest post is written by book and blog coach Judy Cullins, author of Write your eBook or Other Short Book–Fast! You want to make a difference in people’s lives, you are researching a topic and becoming an expert. You want to give your audience answers to their questions on your topic. You want to attract new clients, brand yourself…
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Back when I was in my late twenties or early thirties, I learned about something called a “rejection quota.” At the time, that human potential teacher applied the concept to finding a spouse. The idea is that you have to get rejected a certain number of time before you get accepted by the “right” man or woman and find your…
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Our fast-paced and digital world has shortened the average human attention span. Supposedly people don’t want to read more than a computer-screen’s worth of content at any one given time, they want to read shorter books and generally they don’t read as much. A good deal of what they do read is online in a condensed form. With digital books…
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Today’s guest blog post is written by Jordan Mendys, a media professional, freelance photographer and filmmaker. Sometimes the hardest part of getting your book finished, is getting the funding to even start the work. It used to be that funding was a strenuous task forcing you to tap into your closest friends and family, followed by a self-made PR campaign….
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If you are a nonfiction authors who also blogs, you have a unique opportunity to kill the proverbial two birds with one stone: Write your books on your blog. That’s right, blog your book. Agents and acquisitions editors continue scanning the blogosphere looking for successful blogs to turn into books. Why? Because they see them as test-marketed book ideas–successfully test-marketed…
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Most of you have probably heard the adage, “You only get one chance to make a first impression.” Well, sometimes someone gives you a second chance, but in the world of publishing, when you send a query letter of book proposal to an agent or an acquisitions editor–especially one who doesn’t know you–you really do only get one chance. So,…
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