For the Love of Bringing Books to Life: Write, Publish, and Be Known
Build Your List: An Interview with Louise Crooks
Lisa: What is list building? Is it the same as platform building or more specific, because it’s about people on your list? Louise: List-building is about building a community of folks who are excited to receive free information from you and hear about future offers that provide additional value. These people agreed to hear more from you, by signing up on your email list. The value is in connection – connecting with each person who subscribed to your list, all human beings every one! Lisa: Why is it important? Louise: Without this community, it would be difficult to spread your[...]
Pitch Your Book to Life Contest
Everybody loves a contest. For writers and authors, winning a contest can help get the attention of the right agent or acquisitions editor, or add cache to your book proposal. And, yes, there are the prizes and the great fun of winning. Authors also find that taking that step of declaring their book to the world helps them take ownership and gain momentum. Sometimes, you can get feedback on your idea which helps make your book even more compelling. If any of those benefits resonate with you, enter the Pitch Your Book to Life Contest and see what opens up[...]
Preparing for Harvard Medical School’s CME Publishing Course
As I go over my notes for “Writing for Your Reader: How to Write a Smart, Compelling, Enlightening Page Turner,” a workshop I’ll be delivering Saturday, along with Martha Murphy, as part of Harvard Medical School’s CME Publishing Course, I’m getting excited. The 3-day course is always filled with exciting book ideas, brilliant physicians and medical professionals, talented agents, publishers and others in the publishing industry. The course Director, Julie Silver, MD, varies the presentations each year–there will certainly be some new perspectives and interesting discourse. I’m looking forward to connecting with colleagues, including Rusty Shelton, whose talented team at[...]
Pitchapalooza: Nora Hall’s Book Pitch Experience
Bring Your Book to Life Program graduate Nora Hall, recently returned from a Pitchapalooza at the Northshire Bookstore in Manchester Center, VT. She e-mailed me, excited to share what she’d learned about pitching your book in this competitive book publishing environment and to share the great feedback she received about her book. Lisa: Describe Pitchapalooza. Nora: Just what it sounds like––a fun, fascinating, inspiring opportunity to pitch your book. Upon purchasing The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published by Sterry and Eckstut, you’re entered into a random drawing for one minute to pitch in front of the group––and one minute only.[...]
How to Get Published by Gateway Publishers: An Interview with Author Ginger Moran
When my colleague, Ginger Moran told me her novel, The Algebra of Snow, was being published by a gateway press, I was curious–and knew my readers would be interested, too. What is a gateway press? What’s the advantage over self publishing? Here are Ginger’s answers and a bit more about her edgy novel which I absolutely loved (I ordered 5 copies as gifts!). Lisa: Before we get to the gateway press that’s publishing the Algebra of Snow, can you tell my readers a bit about the history of the book? It was nominated for the Pushcart Editor’s Choice Award—a special[...]
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