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Understanding Your Publishing Options

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Thanksgiving Day dinner offers us many food choices, so I figure Write Nonfiction in November should offer a blog about choices – in this case publishing choices – on November 27th as well. As you finish up your Write Nonfiction in November project (just four days until it’s over if you’re writing on the holiday), you might be mulling over…
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How Writers Can Create Their Own Media Brand

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“Branding” has become quite a catch word these days. As nonfiction writers, we, too, need to “brand” ourselves and our work. We even need to go so far as to become a “media brand.” In the process, however, we can make our writing more marketable to publishers, and, ultimately, to readers. What exactly is a media brand and how do we…
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A Cautionary Self-Publishing Tale with 10 Tips and A Great Ending

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I hadn’t been editing books long when I was approached by the husband of one of my good friends, Colin Tipping. He had written a book, called Radical Forgiveness, and was looking for someone to help him edit it and get it ready for self-publishing. Given that I am “spiritually- and metaphysically inclined,” and this was a spiritually- and metaphysically-based book, I…
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Marketing Yourself and Your Book on the Cheap

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Let’s say you managed to land that publishing deal, or you’ve successfully self-published your book. One way or another, to get those copies selling you need to market not only the books but yourself. You can choose for a variety of ways to do this, including hiring someone to help you do the job. You can also do the job…
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How to Make the Most of a Writers Conference

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In this current economy, many writers may opt out of attending a writers’ conference. However, in any economy, a writers’ conference represents a treasure trove of information and opportunity for the serious writer wanting to become a published author. I’ve attended the San Francisco Writers Conference three times in a row and served as a volunteer once, rounding out my…
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