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May.17.2012
I recently ran a series on my blog about building a business around your book. I’d like to share here on RedRoom the last post, which was about writing a business plan for your book. Now, I’m not a great one to spout off about business plans, since my business hasn’t had one until recently–and...
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May.08.2012
I continue to be amazed by the fact that the majority of writers I know still don’t have a blog. And not of them are old and unwilling to embrace new technology either. Some just simply refuse to do anything other than write. Yet, they say they want to get published. When I ask them why, they...
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May.06.2012
Most writers don’t feel they can get their “real” writing done if they also blog. Not only that, they lump blogging in with social networking and all the other stuff they've been told they need to do to promote themselves and their books. They simply don't want to do these things. They take...
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Apr.10.2012
It's spring. As the natural world seems to give birth to new blooms, leaves and flowers, it’s time to give birth to a new book—to bring that idea inside you into the world on your blog. That’s right. This month we are focusing on blogging a book in 30 days. Call April National Book Blogging...
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Mar.27.2012
Lately I've been spending a lot of time on planning. Like a lot of writers, I set out to simply write. My degree in magazine journalism turned me into an editor as well as a writer. And when I was asked to edit a book for someone, I became a book editor as well as magazine editor. I later...
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Mar.14.2012
These days everyone searches for everything—even experts—on the internet. That means if the media needs a source, an organization needs a speaker, a publisher needs a writer, or a potential customer or client needs to purchase a product or service, they turn to Google, Yahoo, Bing or some other...
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Mar.09.2012
For the last few days I've been working on whittling down the transcript of an interview I conducted with bestselling author T. Harv Eker. When the magazine asked me to do this interview, I jumped at the chance despite my busy schedule. Why? One of the best parts of my job as a journalist...
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Dec.31.2011
I've been thinking all day about what to write in this last post of 2011. I could have offered you some sort of things-t0-do-t0-get-published list or a best-of post. I could have told you to hurry up and finish your to-do list. I decided not to do that. Instead, I thought about what I wanted to...
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Dec.22.2011
You've got a great idea for a nonfiction book. You've written a killer book proposal. Now you need a fabulous query letter to grab an agent or a publisher so they ask you to send your proposal for review.
To write a killer query, you need a one-page letter with three basic sections or...
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Dec.14.2011
Are you standing at the starting line waiting to start your book? What will it take for you to get started? Do you need a gun shut to have the impetus, the initiative, the reason to actually get off the line and start writing?
If so, you may never write your book.
No one is going to shoot the...
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Nov.30.2011
Over the course of the last 29 days of Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN) blog posts, one thing struck me over and over again: The publishing world changes almost daily.
I know most writers know this. They just don’t always get what it means to them and to their ability to succeed as authors...
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Nov.29.2011
Yesterday’s post showed us how savvy writers today can utilize the Internet to help them research, write and promote their books. Today we look at how the Internet has changed how readers find those books. In the quickly-changing publishing world—and the even-more-quickly-changing world of book...
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Nov.28.2011
It’s a new world out there for nonfiction writers of all sorts who want to get published. If you’ve been reading the last week’s worth of posts here on this blog about promotion and marketing, you’ve gotten just an inkling of what it takes to succeed—and it’s not just a good idea and good...
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Nov.27.2011
More aspiring authors than I can mention in desperate need of a platform refuse to use social networking. They see it as a waste of time and a time sink. Published authors needing to promote their books also won’t go near Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Google+. Somehow, it is beneath them, an...
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Nov.26.2011
For months now I’ve been struggling with the term “duplicate content.” I like to repurpose, or recycle, my content—and like most writers and bloggers, I produce a lot of content. I take my blog posts, for instance, and turn them into ezine articles or press releases. Or I create guest blog...
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Nina Amir, Your Inspiration-to-Creation Coach, inspires writers to create the results they desire--publishable and published products and careers as writers and authors. Amir inspires writers to combine their purpose and their passion so they Achieve...
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