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Dec.01.2009
After reading this article, “A Good Author Is Hard to Find,” I realized that writing queries can be almost more challenging than the book you’ve just finished — and in many ways, more important: If you don’t have a great query, agents won’t be asking to see your great novel.
The best thing I can...
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Nov.08.2009
Nonfiction writers looking for traditional book publishing contracts—wanting to sell their manuscripts to small, medium or large traditional publishing houses, need to find themselves literary representation. While finding an agent may not be necessary for many small publishing houses that...
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Nov.01.2009
Are your hands posed over the keyboard ready to begin? Are you waiting, as if for the gun to go off so you can start writing your book, e-book, article, essay, query letter, proposal, or whatever work of nonfiction you’ve chosen to create during the Write Nonfiction in November (WNFiN) 2009...
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Oct.19.2009
As I sifted through the stacks of newspapers that piled up over the week, it all added up to some pretty depressing publishing news (as for what’s going on in the rest of the world, let’s not even go there). First I read this NY Times story about price wars, which notes that Wal-Mart and Amazon...
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Oct.15.2009
This is a continuation of our interview with Alan Rinzler. Two weeks ago, we discussed his legendary life as an editor and publisher over the last 45 years. Alan continues to be a freelance developmental editor, one of the best. Since I often tell people that they need a freelance editor, I...
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Oct.02.2009
There’s always something new in e-publishing these days … and now it’s the “vook.” As the NY Times reports, Simon & Schuster is working “with a multimedia partner to release four ‘vooks,’ which intersperse videos throughout electronic text that can be read — and viewed — online or on an iPhone...
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Sep.02.2009
Well, it looks like I have joined the other 60,000,000 people and have created a blog. As many of you know, I was the owner of Cody's Bookstore for 30 years. I finally threw in the towel on retail in 2007 and started a literary agency in February, 2008. Take a look at my website at www....
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Aug.07.2009
Advice to First Time Authors – Michael Hyatt
http://michaelhyatt.com/2008/08/advice-to-first.html
So as an author, what do you do? Here’s what I recommend:
Educate yourself. If you want to publish with a general market publisher, read 2008 Writer’s Market by Robert Brewer. If you want to write for...
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Aug.05.2009
Recently there was a query letter discussion on one of the lists that I frequent. Everyone chimed in with differing opinions about what works, and what almost guarantees one of those soul-crushing form letter rejections. It made me reflect back on my own letters (and yes, you read that correctly:...
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Aug.04.2009
Advice to First Time Authors – Michael Hyatt
http://michaelhyatt.com/2008/08/advice-to-first.html
So as an author, what do you do? Here’s what I recommend:
Educate yourself. If you want to publish with a general market publisher, read 2008 Writer’s Market by Robert Brewer. If you want to write for...
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