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Your book cover can make or break book sales. I recently recommended a book to a student in my book writing class and she said later, “I never would have bought that book without your recommendation. There were so many visually appealing books and this book had neither title or cover to entice me. ”
I [...]
Tags:bestseller , book cover design , designing book cover , Mark Gelotte
I found a response to one of my youtube videos this morning that got me on a roll. After writing a short dissertation in reply, Youtube informed me I only had 500 words to respond. Blog time.
The controversial video is a tongue in cheek joke (and a tad silly). The comment was this:
“Remember, many agents [...]
Tags:book proposal , Literary Agent , literary agents , Michael Larsen , youtube video
I’ve committed this week to walking every day. In the northeast US that’s a pretty big commitment in February–especially for someone who traces her ancestors back to the dessert.
What could be better inspiration for a writer than walking in nature, though? And my walk, ultimately, brought me powerful metaphors for the writing path.
I walked a [...]
Tags:Muse , Path , RI , Rome Point Seals , Trusting , Writing Inspiration
A couple of questions came up about literary agents today and I realized it would be a good topic to share with you. It’s easy to get taken advantage of it you don’t know what to look for or even aren’t quite clear on a literary agent’s role.
A student from my most recent Bring Your [...]
Tags:book proposal , book writing classes , conflict of interest , editing , editors , find a good literary agent , how to choose a literary agent , Literary Agent , literary agents , Power Women Magazine , preditors
It’s always a thrill when my clients’ books come out and I get that brown cardboard package from Amazon. When Deb Scott finally announced that her book was here, though, I found it especially fulfilling.
Deb had some huge setbacks in her process…making her a great example for the role or perseverance in the life of [...]
Tags:author perseverence , book publishing , book writing class , book writing classes , Deb Scott , Literary Agent , Millenium Bank Ponzi Scheme , perseverence , The Sky is Green , writing setbacks
My Bring Your Book to Life students are preparing for the start of book writing class next month. They’re researching their markets, creating the vision for the their books, and starting to outline. Some are calling me for their book concept consultation.
I love the consultations as we brainstorm to take good ideas and make them [...]
Tags:Add new tag , author's voice , book concept , book writing class , bring your book to life , nothing new under the sun , point of view , someone already wrote my book , writer's voice
If you’re writing a book proposal, one important number to obtain is the number of books sold for any competitive or complementary books you plan to compare with yours.
Here’s a Book Proposal Secret: For the most part, you want to compare your book to bestsellers and backlist books (books that have been in print a [...]
Tags:bestseller , book proposal competitive books , book proposal hints , book proposal secrets , book sales , book sales statistics , competitive and complementary books , getting book sales numbers , getting book sales statisitcs , keyword searches , millions of copies sold , track competitive books' sales
I recently read Open, Andre Agassi’s autobiography. It’s a great read and I was also struck by how dependent he was on the people on his team. I think that’s true about most successful people–they don’t do it alone. They have great coaches, managers, trainers, strategists, advisers, mentors…
Who are the people on a writer’s team? [...]
Tags:agassi , andre agassi , book coaches , book writing platform , business coaches , coaches , editors , literary agents , mentors , Open , platform , publicists , virtual assistants , writer's team , writing coaches
My very first coach, Wendy Keilin, taught me to end the year by celebrating the year’s accomplishments. It’s so easy to look ahead and make some crazy list of the 5 million things you plan to accomplish in 2010. You can do that.
Just, first, take a deep breath and enjoy all the gifts of the [...]
Tags:2009 accomplishments , 2010 intentions , Add new tag , book writing teleseminar , celebrate 2009 , Dan Janal , Deb Bailey , how to write a book , Morgana Rae , new years resolutions , Patty Saddallah , Power Women Magazine , PR Leads , Redwood Sisterhood , resolution write a book , set intentions , Wendy Keilin , write a book first steps
I’m preparing for my interview with Joe Carroccio tomorrow (Monday, December 21) on his program The Law of Distraction and Interruption. It’s got me thinking about what keeps people from writing their books (myself included):
Interruptions like phone calls, e-mails, other people’s needs which we may put before our own.
Distractions like all the other projects going [...]
