For the Love of Bringing Books to Life: Write, Publish, and Be Known
Dressing for Your TV Interview? Chris Fulkerson’s 12 Top Tips
My first time on TV, no one told me not to wear busy designs with lots of color. I wore my most stunning spring suit and it danced around the screen hypnotically (and distractingly) when I appeared on ABC World News with Peter Jennings. Of course, I should have asked…or researched. Sigh. I was never able to use that footage as a sample interview, not because I spoke poorly, but because I looked like a complete amateur by the way I dressed. Those were the days before the internet, when you actually had to call people to find out such[...]
A Bestselling Author’s Take on Writing a Book Now
One of my clients recently spoke to a friend, the wife of a long-time New York Times bestselling author who brought up a new kink in the book writing business. This woman, an author in her own right, said that she knows of several authors with major publishers who lost their editor due to lay-offs at their publishing house. Unfortunately, when your editor leaves the publishing house, your book may languish because the person who fell in love with the project and has the most passion for it is now gone. This is really bad news. In the publishing industry,[...]
Write Yourself Free
Last week, I opened my mail and received this beautiful gem of a book, Maureen Daigle-Weaver’s Write Yourself Free: Conscious living and Personal Peace through the Power of the Pen. Maureen wrote her first draft in my 60 day book writing teleseminar and I got to “test” the Write Yourself Free process and experience its power first hand. I found myself able to move past limiting reactions to things going on in my own life and “clear” beliefs that were blocking me from experiencing my goals, particularly in parenting and writing. The Write Yourself Free process is a comprehensive, solution-based[...]
How to Copyright a Book
Someone recently e-mailed me asking how he could copyright a book before it’s published. Technically, even in draft form, your book is copyrighted. Having their book stolen is one thing many novice writers worry about and yet it’s a rare occurrence. One of the best things you can do is not create a great deal of fear around the idea by worrying about it. However, there are several simple things you can do to help protect yourself. You can place yourname ©2009 on each page of your draft or manuscript to make copyright clear to anyone reading the manuscript. However,[...]
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