Almost every week I find myself having a conversation with one writer or another about why he or she needs to have a website or a blog. I’m getting a bit tired of the discussion, but I keep repeating myself for one reason: I know how important it is in this day and age for every writer to have an Internet presence….
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Improve Your Nonfiction Book Writing with Journalistic Skills
Taking a break from my guest bloggers, I though today I’d treat you to a look at the similarity between writing articles, essays and books-the view from where I sit. I’m a journalist by trade, and, while I happen to be a working freelance journalist, I really make my living editing nonfiction books for my clients. When I’m not engaged…
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Agent Reveals Pet Peeves So Writers Can Avoid Them
Now that you know where to find an agent, and you know the essentials of writing a book proposal – which you will submit to land a contract with an agent, it’s time to learn how not to blow your big chance to gain literary representation. Here today to tell us all about literary agents’ pet peeves, so we can…
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11 Ways to Find a Literary Agent
Every wanna-be author who has dreams of being picked up and published by a traditional publishing house wants to know how to secure representation by a literary agent. Why? Because the large publishing houses won’t look at manuscripts or proposals from “unagented” writers. Some mid-sized, and most small, university, niche, and regional publishers will look at, and often welcome, unagented…
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Memoir Writing: Telling Your Truth
I’ve always wanted to write a memoir. One agent even recommended that I write one of my prescriptive nonfiction books as a memoir. I never did. I saw her a few months ago. It had been about two years since she wrote that response to my book proposal. She told me now she would probably advise me to stick with…
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How to Make Your Manuscript Compelling
Writers can never get too much advice from editors about how to improve their writing. And even editors can learn from other editors. That’s why I asked yet another editor to join me in writing a blog for Write Nonfiction in November. Teresa Leyung Ryan and I move in similar circles, and many of my friends and associates rave about…
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Are You a Traditional Publishing Holdout or a Self-Publishing Maven?
Yesterday’s post brought up an important issue with which most nonfiction (and some fiction) authors today need to grapple: Are you a traditional publishing holdout or a self-publishing maven? Bothroutes to becoming an author have their merits, and both have their pros and cons. However, these days, the benefits of one over the other are becoming a bit more blurred….
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