Becoming a Bestselling Author is Hard Work!
Ready to write your first book?
More power to you.
Ready to live in luxury from the royalties?
Time for a reality check.
I won’t waste space with a lot of statistics on how hard it really is to make money writing. That approach is not only boring and negative, it’s futile.
Everyone who conceives the perfect book expects to [...]
Why Can’t I Get My Novel Published?
There are abundant bear traps along the way that even writers who are old hands at accepting the vagaries of the publishing industry are having difficulty navigating in the current literary marketplace. Here are several issues–some old, some new–to consider.
Pitching a Book to the Wrong Agent or Publisher is Problem #1
Genre specificity plagues a [...]
Get Published by a Small Press
Small presses are not “less than” presses. Almost every major publishing company today began as a small press. In fact, the Association of American Publishers reports that over 73 percent of its membership qualifies as small or independent press. However, understand that some small presses have not been in business very long, others have not [...]
Be Prepared to Publish Your Book
The wise first-time author seeks information about writing, publishing and marketing. Publishing reference books can provide a wealth of information. The style manual for the book industry tends to be The Chicago Manual of Style (University of Chicago Press), and using it as a reference can help you learn such basic information as the parts [...]
Seven Mistakes That Will Get Your Novel Rejected
As a writing coach and book editor, I’ve seen too many novelists, with the very first line they write, destroy their chances of ever getting published.
A good novel will grab the reader’s attention with its first words, create characters the reader wants to know, create a situation the character must resolve, create suspense, create rising [...]
Get Ready to Get Your Book Published
It really thrills me to see so many people interested in writing books — people from every slice of the American pie. Your numbers are impressive, but it is your passion that motivates me to encourage you. Your work, whether academic, literary, genre fiction, self-help or the most basic how-to, is valuable, and you should [...]
Present Your Book Manuscript Professionally
Remember that you are presenting your work with the expectation that a publisher will purchase it and agree to spend at least five figures producing and marketing the finished product. Because of the amount of money to be invested, you will reasonably expect the publisher to do a professional job producing and selling your work. [...]
Write a Novel – How to Get Published
To write a novel that will be appealing to a major royalty publisher involves more than just talent and hard work. It requires creating a plan from the outset and the discipline to follow it.
Everybody Has a Story Worth Telling
If you have begun reading this article, there’s a good possibility you have either been [...]
Book Agent Query Letters – Finding the Right Agent For Your Novel
Many Agents Do Not Accept Unsolicited Material
In the fiction area of the book-agenting arena, other than some agents/agencies now requesting or requiring submissions via E-mail, the rules for presenting preliminary material have not changed appreciably in the past 15 to 20 years. What has changed is the number of agents who no longer accept unsolicited [...]
Writing Better Fiction – Beware when Action does Not Constitute Movement
One of the most serious issues facing many writers is the ability to maintain the action throughout the narrative. Unfortunately, the mere creation of a dramatic occurrence does not guarantee plot movement
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