Today’s guest blog post is from my colleague Judy Cullins, author of LinkedIn Marketing: 8 Best Tactics to Build Book and Business Sales. Do you say or think any of these comments about writing your non-fiction book? “I’m not sure my peers and audience will want my book.” “I don’t expect great sales or to be a bestseller.” “It’s not…
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To become a published author your must have determination. You must be unwilling to give up–on yourself or on your ideas. In today’s publishing world, you have so many options. If you can’t get your work published traditionally, you can publish it yourself. You can produce an ebook or a pbook. If you don’t have the money for a pbook,…
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So you say you want have a career as a writer or you want to become an author? Stop talking about writing and publishing, and take some solid steps toward those goals. Becoming a writer or an author is not as difficult as it might seem. These titles are not unattainable, although you might need to chunk down a few…
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Today’s guest post is written by my colleague Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of Your Blog, Your Business and a new edition of the multi award-winning The Frugal Book Promoter. I often coach authors with their blogging projects. I not only give them personal help but I also recommend the best of the blogging books out there. Now I have Nina Amir’s new “How…
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No matter where or when I speak about building an author platform, inevitably someone–or more than one person–begins to whine and complain. “Writers should just be allowed to write. Publishers should just buy our books because we have a good idea and are good writers. We shouldn’t have to do all that social networking and speaking and media stuff to…
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How often do you start something and not finish it? Be honest. If you have a ton of started manuscripts or proposals that you haven’t finished, this could be one reason you aren’t achieving your writing goals. Do you go to conferences or conventions, make connections, say you will do something–like send a proposal, make a phone call, send information,…
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Social networking. The bane of a writer’s existence. Right? We just want to right. Why join even one let two or three—or one more? Because that’s how we build platform and get notice by potential readers and possibly by agents, acquisitions editors and publishers. Today I offer you an interview with agent and author Jeff Herman, founder of, yes, another…
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