The next best thing to getting a call from an agent saying they are interested in representing you is getting an email or call from your agent telling you an acquisition editor at a publishing house wants to see your proposal. (Of course, the very next best thing is getting a call from your agent telling you have received an…
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What Can an Author Blog About?
Authors constantly ask me what they can blog about. They have a book–fiction or non-fiction–and they want to know how to use their blog to promote it. However, they have to keep blogging on a daily or weekly basis. They need content regularly, and they don’t know what to write about. Here’s a list of 20 blog post idea for…
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20 Things To Do Before You Turn in Finished Written Work
As you near the completion of any fiction or nonfiction writing project—book, article, essay, e-book, short story, or blog post—you want to ensure you turn in or publish your best work. What needs to happen before what you’ve written gets sent out to a literary agent, acquisition editor, or publication editor, or before you publish it yourself? As a journalist,…
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6 Things You Need to Do Before You Blog a Book
Anyone can simply begin blogging. Blogging a book, however, that’s a different story. If you want to blog a book, approach the endeavor like you would any other book project you might undertake. Here’s a list of 6 things you need to do before you start blogging your book. 1. Choose a topic: You can choose just any old topic…
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Does Your Book Have a Message or a Purpose?
Before you begin writing your book, short book or booklet, blogged book, or e-book–any type of book–you must know why you are writing it. If you don’t know that, your reader won’t know why they should read it. A book should have a purpose, a reason to exist. Often this rises out of the message you want to convey. More…
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