You may not realize that when you decide to self-publish you become a publishers as well as a writer. This is particularly true if you decide to produce your book alone without an author services company that offers editing, design, printing, and distribution services. True self-publishing happens when you find individual experts to do these tasks as you oversee the…
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Let’s say you don’t want to take my journalism school professor’s advice and, instead, want to write an article–or two or three–as your WNFIN challenge project even if you don’t have a paying assignment yet. Today, Zachary Petit, managing editor of Writer’s Digest magazine and author of the forthcoming A Year of Writing Prompts: 366 Story Ideas for Honing Your Craft…
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Not every nonfiction writer dreams of writing a book. Some dream of bylines in glossy magazines or in newspapers or even on popular websites. I know; that was my dream when I began my writing career. I went to college to study magazine journalism. While there, however, my professors told never to write a word unless I knew I was…
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Ebooks are all the rage these days. You’ve probably heard stories of authors making tons of money on them, selling thousands of copies, giving them away, using them to build their mailing lists, and producing them quickly and inexpensively. You might even read about successful ebook authors who have landed traditional publishing deals. All of this is true–and possible for…
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Of all the nonfiction book formats, memoir seems the one that stalls writers in the middle the most often. That’s not a good thing when you are trying to write a memoir in 30 days. So I asked my colleague Linda Joy Myers, president of the National Association of Memoir Writers and author of The Power of Memoir: How to…
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