Mud and Food, Week #3 As I was doing research on Mississippi mud, I was overwhelmed with information about the beer, the song, the coffee, the book, the art gallery, the baseball team, and about 100 other things all containing those two words somewhere in the title. Yikes! And to think I found all that when I was simply looking for the Mississippi mudslide cocktail!…
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This post is a blogged draft excerpt from The Author Training Manual (Writer’s Digest Books, March 2014). Read the previous blogged excerpt, here. Once you know the size of your market—big or niche—it’s time to evaluate your book idea with that market in mind. Determine if your project seems viable or how to make it viable based on the information…
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Mud and Food, Week #3 Welcome to week #3 in our month-long “mud” theme here at Write Non Fiction in November. With just six short days to go before hosting my daughter’s seventh birthday party, I have food, food, food on the brain. That’s why it will be much fun talking about mud and food this week! Your job is…
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Cool Mud Folks, Week #2 This week, we have talked about people whose names have some variations of “mud” in them. We started off with singer Muddy Waters, moved on to the band Puddle of Mudd, and today, we finish with blogger Muddy Kinzer. Your job is to find out who Muddy is and write a profile of her. Creative…
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This post is a blogged draft excerpt from The Author Training Manual (Writer’s Digest Books, March 2014). Read the previous blogged excerpt, here. Not every book has to have a huge market. It’s possible to sell a lot of books by targeting your work to small niche markets. You do, however, have to have a target market that, upon evaluation,…
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Cool Mud Folks, Week #2 The next person on my list of mud people to discuss is a rock band known as Puddle of Mudd. Based in Kansas City, Missouri, Puddle of Mudd formed in 1992, making this a rock band with a 20+ year history. Naturally, the thing I find most interesting about the band is its name. Your…
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This post is a blogged draft excerpt from The Author Training Manual (Writer’s Digest Books, March 2014). Read the previous blogged excerpt, here. As a writer who wants someone in addition to yourself to read your work, you need a market for your book. You can’t write “the book you want to read” and make it successful unless lots of…
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Cool Mud Folks, Week #2 We are now in the second week of our mud theme in conjunction with the writing principle of creative brainstorming. As we move on to cool folks with some variation of “mud” in their name, it’s clear that we need to begin with famed blues musician, Muddy Waters. Muddy was famous for many things during…
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