~ By Brighton Walsh So you’ve got this book you’ve just given birth to. You’ve bled tears to get it just right. You’ve spent hours correcting grammar and punctuation, polishing your characters and arcs and the climax. You’ve gotten constructive feedback and prettied it up as best you can. Now what? Well, you have three options. […]
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~ By Margaret Ethridge I’m looking back toward my future. It will be about maximizing income from backlist titles. Something I’ve been neglecting. Whether you have forty books in your backlist or four, your front list should be driving readers to backlist, and backlist driving readers to front list and preorders. I know this is an
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~ By Stephanie Haefner This year, more than others in the past, my main goal for the RWA National Conference was to make connections with agents and editors, and boy did I ever! The main sources for amazing networking this year were the Speed Pitch event and the Industry Marketplace. In past years, RWA members attending
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(Or how I eventually got an agent) ~ By Laura Trentham I’m casting back a couple of years to tell you about my worst writing week ever. What’s the old adage? Bad things come in threes (or more!) Alexander had lots of bad things happen to him over a long, miserable day. My bad stuff
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~ Lia Covington It’s such an honor to have such a fun, book-loving guest on the blog today! Not so long ago, I heard this guest speak on the Smart Podcast, Trashy Books podcast and I knew she had to come hang out with us. So, without further ado, here’s Lia Covington from Lia’s Booking
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~ By Milou Koenings Like most writers, it tends to be just me and the keyboard. And I like it that way. But when it comes to book marketing, I decided a few years ago that it was time to break out of my comfort zone and start collaborating with other authors. I had seen what could
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~ By Carole Matthews A Note from Melina (aka Melissa): I may not bake as well as Mary Berry (though not for lack of trying). But I’m proud that that we have one thing in common. We both adore Carole Matthews. It was from Carole Matthews that I learned about The Great British Bake-Off, and
~ By Kris Jayne Note: This post originally appeared here. RWA’s program amazes me every year. It offers information and guidance on everything from craft to business to wellness. The worst part? I can’t attend every session. So I’d love to share my top takeaways from the sessions I attended — small and large. Maybe
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~ By Marilyn Brant Note: This post originally appeared here. At the end of last year, I’d spent a lot of time pondering Criticism and Writers. This week, having reread those reflections, I realized I didn’t have much to add to them after another year amidst the thrill, the chaos and the frequent insanity of being a
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~ By Katie McCoach Note: This post originally appeared here. FOR THOSE THAT are planning to self-publish a book, you may have heard by now that self-publishing is a business. It’s your business, and treating your business with professionalism and enlisting in the required help will help your business (books) succeed. For those seeking agent representation, this idea also holds true, however a
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~ By Jill Beck What are the odds? Do you ever ask yourself this question? For me, it rears its ugly head on the days my thoughts go over to the dark side. It’s my brain’s more subtle way of saying, “This is too hard. We might as well quit.” When I first started writing, I
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~ By Lit Diva For a really long time, I was stuck on the idea that my writing was Art with a capital A, that I was a dilettante author for the love of wordsmithing. That I was neither a real writer nor a hack for hire, but an Artist. For this reason alone, I’m convinced
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