You wouldn’t think that the tragic shooting in Arizona last weekend would be good news for anyone. However, HCI, the publisher of Faces of Hope: Babies Born on 9/11, a collection of photos of babies born on September 11 with a few words beside each photo, has seen a dramatic increase in sales of this particular title since the event….
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Stop Talking and Start Writing
Lately I’ve been listening to myself talk to my husband about my writing and the ideas I post here, as well as those I give to my clients to help them get their projects written and published. I do a lot of talking. I have a lot of ideas. Interestingly enough, I don’t always do a lot of writing, and…
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How to Write a Book in a Week
How many words can you write in an hour? I can write between 750 and 1,000. So, I figured it out. If I could take off one week and just write, I could complete the manuscript for an entire book. That’s right. If I wrote for 8 hours each day, I would turn out about 6,000 words. In five days,…
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Does Your Book Idea Fill an Empty Spot on the Shelf?
The other day a potential client asked me what I thought about her book idea. She said, “The book I want to write is just like all the books I read.” Hmmm. That could be good or it could be bad. If lot’s of books exist on your topic and have been written in a similar format, that means readers…
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Write When You Feel Inspired
I was listening to author Wayne Dyer talk about starting a new book. He had an idea, wrote an outline, submitted it to his publisher (How nice!), and got contract (Even nicer!). He could see the book in his mind. So, he began writing. I got a call this week from a prospective client. She had known from quite some…
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