Congratulations, you've just finished your cross-market book. So how are you going to increase visibility (and all-important sales) to your audience? Will you choose: A. By reading Mick's brilliant blog post here. B. What? Promote? That's the publisher's job. Or C. I figured I'd learn all that once I get a contract. If you answered B or C,
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Disagreements, differences of perspective, verbal sparring. This is what good stories thrive on. So it's no wonder that sometimes in the course of discussing things we're passionate about–like writing books–writers can get a little heated up. I witnessed a couple minor disgreements between writers and editors this week over the definition of quality, and I was reminded of the early
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We're up at the lake with the family for a few days, and I'm thinking about going into the other room to play Wii with everyone else, watch some baseball maybe, have a little more apple pie… But a competing desire has me thinking about all the writing I haven't been getting done while I'm bounced out of my schedule
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It's strange blogging. I've said before it's like taking your shirt off in front of the class. It feels sort of wrong to do it. Which is probably why so many people like it. But other people do it for traffic. I've done that before, but I don't really care about that anymore. I actually like not being anyone special. Can you
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I get this question a lot. Especially at writer's conferences. At a writer’s conference, there’s always too much information. You need to purge it and sift through it afterwards. And some things need to be debunked, clarified, or given proper context. I hear things some of my colleagues say to new authors and I wonder what they’re smoking. Authors misunderstand some things, but some
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