More often than not, this blog focuses on how to sell books via promotion and platform. For a refreshing change, today we go back to the basics: writing and ideas. After all, books are born from ideas and created with the words we put on paper. Today my guest blogger, Shennandoah Diaz, business development and marketing assistant at Greenleaf Book…
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What’s the difference between memoir and fiction?
If you sometimes wonder what the difference is between memoir and fiction, you aren’t alone. Often writers use their experiences as fodder for novels, and memoir, which is based on life experience, must read like fiction yet not be fictionalized. Occassionally, a writer crosses the line and gets in trouble–as we’ve seen in the not too distant past. Writers use…
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How Do You Build Platform Blogging About Fiction or Memoir?
I’m a big proponent of using blogging as a way to build platform for nonfiction authors. I speak about this quite often to my clients, many of whom come to me with book proposals that have empty platform sections. When I speak before groups, in particular writer’s groups, I often get asked about how fiction writers can use a blog…
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How Does a Deadline Help You Write?
In case you missed this blog post at Write Nonfiction NOW!, I’m publishing it here as well. It’s worth a read again anyway… training as a magazine journalist taught me the value of deadlines. When you are up against the wall, you simply have to write. You have to start–and finish. That’s the beauty of a deadline. You start and…
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How to Write and Publish Book About Change
In case some of you missed the link to my interview with literary agents Michael Larsen and Elizabeth Pomada, who are the co-directors of the San Francisco Writing for Change Conference, today I’d simply like to offer you the chance to listen to that conversation. They offer a wealth of information on how to take your passion for creating change…
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Is Publishing Your Book a Business Venture?
I’m constantly preaching to writers that they must wear not only a writer’s hat but a businessperson’s hat. So, I was happy to read the following post by my guest blogger, Sue Collier, a publishing consultant and head of Self-Publishing Resources and co-author of the newly released The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing, 5th Edition. She clearly shows that writing and…
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Writing for Change: From Passion to Publication, Part 2
Today agent Michael Larsen, author of How to Write a Book Proposal and How to Get a Literary Agent, and co-director of the San Francisco Writing for Change conference, is back again to provide the second part of his post on the road from passion to publication–a topic close to my heart. Writing for Change: From Passion to Publication By…
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Are You Ready for the Write Nonfiction in November Challenge?
In just under two weeks, nonfiction writers will take to their keyboards to begin 30 days of work on a new project. Not only will they start that project, they will finish it. Why? Because that’s the challenge posed by Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN). WNFIN, which is both a challenge and a full-month of guest blog posts about many…
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15 Days and Counting until Write Nonfiction in November 2010!
It’s time to start gearing up for another great Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN) challenge! It’s October 15. That means we’ve got just 15 days until the challenge starts, so you better start preparing! Do you know what project you want to start and finish during the 30 days of November? Have you planned it out so you are ready…
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