Literary agent Mark Gottlieb sees a lot of book proposals every week. That’s a lot of nonfiction book ideas passing…
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Pitch Influencers to Garner Attention for Your Book
Today, Penny Sansevieri (@Bookgal), CEO and founder of Author Marketing Experts, Inc. and a best-selling author and internationally recognized book…
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Angles and Themes Make Your Book Idea More Marketable
This post is a blogged draft excerpt from The Author Training Manual (Writer’s Digest Books, March 2014). Read the previous…
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WNFIN Virtual Pitch Slam Panel of Agent Judges Revealed
For those of you planning to write a book during WNFIN and then pitch it during the post-WNFIN Virtual Pitch…
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Write a Book During WNFIN 2012 and Pitch it to Agents!
Lots of Write Nonfiction in November participants write books, although you can take on a shorter nonfiction project. This year,…
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Pitching Book Ideas at Book Expo America (Part 2)
As I mentioned in my last post, despite my earlier intentions, I did spend a fair amount of time pitching…
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Writing a Book Pitch Takes Hard Work
I was sitting on the judges panel for the 2012 San Francisco Writers Conference Pitchfest, which is usually a contest—we…
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Sound Bites for Authors
For the next nine days of Write Nonfiction in November, you’ve got to wear your writer’s hat while you work…
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Building Author Platform by Pitching Yourself to the Media
One of the ways to build author platform involves pitching yourself and your expertise to the media. This means offering…
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