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Nov.16.2012 A Pitch is Still a Pitch When you hone you subject into a great pitch, you know what you’re book is about—and you can communicate that in a query letter or aloud. Pitchcraft™ is an invaluable tool—not just for landing an agent but for selling books. In this guest post, agent Katharine Sands, who coined the term,...	Mar.26.2012 New York Editor Gives List Of Tips For Freelance Writers Some of these are also pertinent for any author. We all want to describe our books and we all (in this day and age) need to do it quickly. Be precise and be persistent. New York Times T Magazine * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * NYT Magazine Editor Shares Tips for Freelance Writers...
Nov.21.2011 Sound Bites for Authors For the next nine days of Write Nonfiction in November, you’ve got to wear your writer’s hat while you work on your writing projects. But when you read this final series of blog posts, you must put on your business hat. I know that’s not something writers like to do, but it’s a necessary part...	Nov.14.2011 How to Sell a Book by Answering the Essential Questions More often than not, aspiring authors who send me nonfiction book proposals for editing haven’t included all the information required. They think they know what should be in the document’s pages. They may have read books on how to write a book proposal or found helpful articles on the Internet...
Jul.15.2011 Summertime Blues When Dealing With Publishers Worst Times To Pitch a Publishing Professional By Jason Boog Authors, aspiring writers, GalleyCat bloggers, publicists and other publishing professionals have all learned that summer is the worst time to pitch somebody an idea. Between summer Fridays and vacation plans, your email inbox will be...	Apr.03.2011 The Windup, and the Pitch! Well, we (some of us Redwood Writers) tried to impart our wisdom from the trenches on the hard work of publishing. I learned how to pitch yesterday. Fabulous! Charlotte Cook and Jon James Miller were concise and to the point, and I gained a good bit of knowledge, though I was too chicken to pitch...
Mar.02.2011 10 Things to Do to Produce a Winning Nonfiction Book Proposal I've looked at two book proposals recently for aspiring authors with agents eagerly awaiting their submissions. The writers came to me for what they considered a "cursory review" because they felt their proposals just needed a "finishing touch," another set of eyes to...	Feb.24.2011 You Takes Yo' Lumps I had a novel manuscript I was particularly proud of and when my writing pal, Lyn, mentioned the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards, I said what the hell, and I entered. Mine went into the general fiction category, and Lyn, who has written a bang-up young adult novel, entered the YA category. The...
Jan.31.2011 Just When You Thought It Was Safe To . . . My blog title can lead to many conclusions, but today I would end it with ". . . post your 'pitch'." It wasn't. I removed it. I wrote another. I'll praise the Amazon Novel Contest for offering the opportunity to change submissions until the deadline. I was troubled yesterday (...	Jan.30.2011 A Day In The Life Of A Pitch Cutting the word count for the Amazon Novel Contest. They say 300. So, at first, 50 over. Then 36. Now 29. A chore #amwriting #Amazon One more word removed - "also". I dunno if tweeting assists or not. Not being able to see the forest for the words. "...as he blames them for...

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