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In a bit of a divergence from my customary marketing and publishing focus, here’s a poem I hope will inspire you:
your muse calls to you
across a great, rocky chasm
you look down
feel queasy
look across
but see no bridge
still
your muse calls
your heart stirs
yearns
pulls you
and
without thinking
you step forward
into thin air
and grow wings
Tags: Muse, poem, Writing Inspiration
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 [...]
Tags: book proposal, copyright, copyrighting ideas, protecting new ideas, protection, radio interviews, sharing ideas, stealing book ideas, stealing ideas
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 [...]
Tags: contest, Donna Montalbano, engage readers, fanbase, mystery, novel, social networking, suspense, the house on benefit street, the shop on wickendon street, twilight, writing coach
Today’s post is interview style: I’m here with Laura Gwen, an inspirational speaker and an authority on universal laws, including the law of attraction. Laura is kicking off Aspire Media’s Inspiring Speaker Series with her talk April 15: Stress is Optional: Success is a Choice, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Warwick, RI.
Of course, I [...]
Tags: Aspire Magazine, Aspire Media, feeling stress, Laura Gwen, law of attraction, scheduling the day, segment intending, starting the day, stress, success, unconscious thoughts, Unity Center of Light, universal law, writing a book
Guest Blog by Daniel Tomasulo, author of Confessions of a Former Child: A Therapist’s Memoir
My first popular press book came out earlier this year. Confessions of a Former Child: A Therapist’s Memoir was published by Graywolf in May and was well received.
In the six months since it has been released I have received a number [...]
Tags: addiction, author reading, Autobiography of a Face, book reading, confessions, confessions of a former child, Dani Shapiro, Daniel Tomasulo, funny memoir, Greenwich Village, Hard to write, heroin overdose, humorous memoir, Kettle of Fish, Lucy Grealy, memoir, New School in NYC, Oprah pick, painful memoir, painful to write, Princeton, Slow Motion, therapist memoir, therapist's memoir
Yesterday, Jeannie shared in this writing blog that she’d been asked to ghostwrite a memoir and asked some advice about what to charge and what she might negotiate. Ghostwriting is a great way to write books and get paid right away. But it’s also easy to get burned when ghostwriting a book. Here are 10 [...]
Tags: author credit, author name, book writing time line, collaborative writing, entertainment lawyer, ghostwrite a memoir, Ghostwriting, ghostwriting agreement, ghostwriting contract, ghostwriting fees, ghostwriting research, ghostwriting revisions, kill fee, late fees, Writing
Aspiring authors often ask me whether it’s important to have a literary agent. My answer, as an experienced writing coach, is always yes. Recently, that answer really hit home when my client, Dr. Ellen Weber Libby, e-mailed me to say that her agent, Regina Brooks of Serendipity Literary Agency, had not only found [...]
Tags: agents, Barbara Ganim, best literary agent, Ellen Weber Libby, Favorite Child, find a literary agent, literary agency, Literary Agent, literary agents, Publishing Contract, Regina Brooks, Serendipity Literary Agency
