Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Readers often do research before they buy a book, and reviews factor into purchases more and more.
The trend in reviews is changing rapidly with the change of …
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Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Readers often do research before they buy a book, and reviews factor into purchases more and more.
The trend in reviews is changing rapidly with the change of …
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Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Researching at a bookstore is fun and you can learn a lot, but you can find out about trends in other places as well.
Spend some time looking …
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Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Barnes & Noble, Santa Rosa, Calif.
While I was in the bookstore, I focused my research on historical romance. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, we’ll start with the pictures of what I saw …
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Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Barnes & Noble, Santa Rosa, Calif.
When I was in Denver at the Jerry B. Jenkins Writing for the Soul Conference, two questions I was asked frequently were, “What’s popular now?” and “What book trends do …
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Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Writing for the Soul conference, Denver, Colo.
How do the writing tools and skills we’ve discussed this week affect aspects of your life beyond the craft of writing?
The following two questions might help you to …
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Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Writing for the Soul Conference; Denver, Colo.
Tools and tips for handling the financial aspects of writing:
1) Understand taxes: When you receive your first advance, it’s so exciting that you’re tempted to spend the …
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Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Professional Tools
Writers need to keep up on the publishing market; a variety of tools help the author to be knowledgeable and “in-the-loop,” as they write and submit …
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Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Today we’re going to explore the tools a writer needs to master for marketing a book. Marketing has become a huge part of the author’s job both before …
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Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
As you know, there’s much more to writing these days than just producing a book. Some authors would claim that the writing is the easy part! The hard …
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Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Books & Such Literary Agency Main Office, Rain-soaked Santa Rosa, Calif.
The comments you wrote about outlining on Monday’s blog left me wondering a couple of things. First, I was wondering (and have no way to …