Posted September 3rd, 2010 by lisatener
When Linda Joy invited me to become an advisory board member of Aspire Magazine, I got goose bumps. Linda is all about delivering inspiration to women–a mission I could get behind.
Two plus years later, my community has grown significantly, partly through knowing Linda and being part of all that is Aspire magazine [...]
Tags: author platform, book writing, Linda Joy, publishing how-to, publishing memoir, publishing nonfiction, write a book
Posted July 1st, 2010 by lisatener
One could easily write a book (or a series of books) on the subject of social media for authors. Let’ see how much meat I can put in one blog post. Here are some takeaways from my interview last night with Leili McKinley, who has helped many award winning authors hit a home run with [...]
Tags: Leili McKinley, social media for authors
Posted April 11th, 2010 by lisatener
I just read a linked-in discussion where someone asked for a clearer definition of “platform” and what should go in your promotion plan. I responded to the discussion and then thought it would make a useful blog post.
Your book promotion plan should:
1. Demonstrate that you know your audience and you know where they hang out [...]
Tags: author platform, book promotion plan, book proposal, how to find a publisher, how to get published, promotion plan
Posted March 22nd, 2010 by lisatener
These past few weeks I’ve been preparing for my presentation for Harvard Medical School’s CME publishing course, which begins on Thursday. I’ll address 200 or so aspiring authors on the topic of blogging and social media in the ballroom of the Fairmont Copley Hotel.
The audience will probably include people who belong to twibes and those [...]
Tags: author platform, book publicity, Carrie Beers, harvard medical school publishing course, lean hospitals, mark graban, sara stein md, social media authors, switched at birth, twitter, youtube
Posted February 18th, 2010 by lisatener
People ask me about the process of getting a literary agent. You probably know you need to submit a query (or meet an agent who says, “Yes, I want to see your proposal”), then submit your book proposal (a significant document often 50-80 pages), then wait.
But what’s it like from the inside? I asked Dr. [...]
Tags: Dr. Randy Kamen-Gredinger, getting published, harvard medical school publishing course, Harvard writers, how to find a literary agent, Jeanne Fredericks, literary agents, writing books
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Posted January 7th, 2010 by lisatener
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
Posted January 6th, 2010 by lisatener
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? [...]
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Posted December 29th, 2009 by lisatener
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 [...]
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Posted November 19th, 2009 by lisatener
Back from Las Vegas and, in my total 17 minutes of gambling, I won $40 at roulette. More than 130% return on the $30 I bet. But I bet you want to hear book writing advice from the publishers at the Medical Fusion Conference.
Dr. Julie Silver facilitated the publishing panel made up of Debbie Carvalko [...]
Tags: competitive books, debbie carvalko, definition author platform, definition platform, Dr. Julie Silver, karin J. craig, medical fushion, Michael Larsen, praeger publishing, publishing advice, publishing pearls, Sunrise River Press
Posted October 28th, 2009 by lisatener
One of my private coaching clients called today as we’re wrapping up her book proposal and making our short list of agents. She had a number of next step questions on her list, but one stuck out for me.
A colleague had asked to interview her for a chapter in the colleague’s book. The colleague had [...]
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