For those of you who missed last week’s MUDDY MIDDLE conversation with me and Linda Joy Myers, President of the National Association of Memoir Writers,
Shopping for an agent or an editor is an important step on the journey to getting published. For a lot of writers, it’s the first
This month we’ll be covering the third and final part of this three-part series, which to date has covered the Competitive Titles and About the
Last month’s newsletter covered the importance of Competitive Titles in positioning your book. I wrote that there are three marketing-related aspects to your book proposal
I’ve found that lots of aspiring authors are confused by what it means to market themselves. I often see proposals that are lackluster at best
This Christmas season it seems that everywhere I turn, people are telling me about laying low, reassessing, taking time off, hibernating. It’s true that winter
Like many American families, ours honors the Thanksgiving tradition of going around the table and saying what we’re thankful for each year. This year I
“EVERYTHING YOU WANT AND NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GETTING YOUR NONFICTION BOOK PUBLISHED IN TODAY’S PUBLISHING CLIMATE” Weds Dec 8 10am-11am PT | 1pm-2pm ET,
There are many deterrents to writing. Every writer knows that. Top Five (off the top of my head) are: (1) Procrastination (ie, everything in my
For an industry that’s in the business of creativity, most publishing houses are actually extremely uncreative. (Caveat: I’m speaking mostly of bigger houses and mostly