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 August 7th, 2009 by lisatener
A client e-mailed me a couple of days ago suggesting that he didn’t really need an internet section in the promotion plan of his book proposal. “Isn’t that an agent’s job–to publicize my book on the internet?”
No. Book publicity is your job. Both agents and publishers want close to a sure thing. Your proposal needs [...]
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Posted August 5th, 2009 by lisatener
As an author or aspiring author, you need to use social networks to help create your platform and, eventually, promote and sell your books.
Yet, social networks can eat hours or days of your time with little impact. This is because social networks aren’t generally built in a day. If your social network is going to [...]
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Posted July 29th, 2009 by lisatener
I’m going to out and out brag here. July is shaping up to be an exciting month for my clients and we’re celebrating. Want to hear their secrets of success?
First, here’s the good news. In July alone:
- Three of my clients signed contracts and/or received offers from publishers for their books.
- Two other clients are [...]
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Posted June 9th, 2009 by lisatener
In this interconnected world, we’re seeing that authors who engage their readers and create a sense of community can achieve great success, like the phenomenal success of Twilight, due partly to a huge Facebook and social networking fan base.
As you know, my focus as a writing coach is on adult nonfiction. While the ideas I’m [...]
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Posted April 23rd, 2009 by lisatener
Rusty Shelton and the publicists at Phenix & Phenix take a whole day to train new authors for their media interviews and publicity opportunities at the start of every campaign they run. At Harvard, he squeezed much of that media training know-how into an hour, focusing on how to give a great media [...]
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Posted February 6th, 2009 by lisatener
Guest Post by Rusty Shelton, managing director, Phenix & Phenix Literary Publicists
I hope this week’s series on publicity provides you with a new outlook on the publicity process. It doesn’t have to be intimidating–or a black hole you envision at the end of the publishing process.
I realize that many authors would rather write their next [...]
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