Yesterday I was working with a client on focusing her memoir. To me the beginning middle and end of her story seemed so clear. The symbolism was all there, even in her title, and it carried all the way through. She couldn’t see it. That’s why I ask my clients to take the time to go through the proposal process,…
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Online and Traditional PR Tips for Writers
As I wait for my three, yes, three, books to arrive from the printer, I turn my attention to promotion. (Two of the books are new additions in new formats; one is a totally new book.) I’ve asked a pro to offer advice, and so once again Michelle Tennant Nicholson, chief creative officer of Wasabi Publicity and a 20-year veteran…
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Tupperware Parties for Books? Why Not?
Authors are always looking for great new ways to promote and market their books. Just when you think it has all been done before, along comes a new idea that…well…had been done before but with another product. Only it worked so well with that other product, someone figured it had to work for selling books, too. And guess what, it…
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Anyone Can Write a Short Book…and Publish It…Fast!
Did you think I disappeared? Did you think I simply forgot to write a blog post on Monday and possibly today, too? Nope. I’ve been busy. (Again.) As of today, I have sent off three short books to the printer, www.360DigitalBooks.com. I have upgraded my self-publishing activities from a booklet press and will now have perfect bound, rather than saddle-stitched,…
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Achieving a Strategic Outcome When You Speak or Write
I’m constantly telling my coaching clients to start their books with carefully planning. Just today I told stopped one of my clients from writing a chapter. She hasn’t really gotten a handle on what she is writing. She knows her topic, but she has not created a table of contents for her book; in fact, she has way too much…
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The Heat is On! Write a Book Fast!
It’s summer, and that means just one thing… (No, its not time for a vacation.) It’s time to use the next few weeks or months to get busy and start and finish a writing project—fast—before things gear up again in the fall. Here’s how… Those of you in the Northern California area can register for my next workshop, How to…
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Turning an E-Book into a P-Book with InDesign
I bet you wondered what happened to me when no blog post showed up n Monday. Well, I was a bit busy learning how to design a book in Adobe InDesign. I was going to try and hire a designer, but I had the program and I used to do a ton of design work “back in the day” when…
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How Much Content are You Sitting On?
I got motivated to turn out some products–books–the other day. I’m off to a convention at the end of the month where I am teaching two workshops. I’d like to bring something new and more professionally produced. I have a number of short books based on longer works I planned on writing one day (currently stalled in the proposals stage),…
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