Happy New Year! Each year I spend time either on New Year’s Eve or on January first visualizing my year. In this way I “create” it. I firmly believe that by getting clear about what I want to create in the coming 12 months, focusing attention on it regularly and then taking inspired and purposeful action related to bringing my…
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I’ve been thinking all day about what to write in this last post of 2011. I could have offered you some sort of things-t0-do-t0-get-published list or a best-of post. I could have told you to hurry up and finish your to-do list. I decided not to do that. Instead, I thought about what I wanted to encourage you to do…
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I read this recent post by Seth Godin, and it got me thinking about all the different possible things we authors can now do with our content. Then I thought of an ebook recently published by Julien Smith, The Flinch. It’s free and there’s not much to it but great content. There’s so much great content to be written. So…
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I do a lot of things to help make my writing dreams come true. I write. I promote. I propose. I don’t give up. I don’t accept rejection as failure. I build platform. But there are some other things I do, too. These have little to do with writing per se. They have more to do with using my focus…
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Happy Holidays! Today’s post is a short one mainly to say thank you for being my blog readers. I’m so grateful every day to know that someone shows up here–well, more than just some one…lots of some ones–to read what I write. I compose these posts three times a week because I’m passionate about helping other aspiring nonfiction authors learn…
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I hear the same excuse from aspiring authors—and from published authors—when I tell them they should use social networking to build platform and promote themselves and their work. They always say, “It’s one more thing to do that takes me away from my writing.” This statement is closely followed by, “Social networking is a waste of time,” “It’s a time…
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You’ve got a great idea for a nonfiction book. You’ve written a killer book proposal. Now you need a fabulous query letter to grab an agent or a publisher so they ask you to send your proposal for review. To write a killer query, you need a one-page letter with three basic sections or paragraphs. Thus, tackle writing your query…
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