By Wendy Lawton
One of the reasons you love writing is because it is a solitary pursuit, right? Aren’t most writers introverts? So why in the world do we have to connect with writer friends?
You’ve heard the word networking …
Platform–A Snarky Commentary
By Wendy Lawton
Okay, confession time: Here at Books & Such I’m known as the platform denier. The skeptic. Card-carrying member of the Book Marketing Flat Earth Society. Yes, I know that an author’s platform can be a powerful thing, …
Back At It
By Wendy Lawton
Today is the day after a three-day-weekend, the beginning of summer. It makes us remember the days of childhood when this was the beginning of a long and lazy summer vacation. Anyone finding it hard to get …
Royalty Conundrums
By Wendy Lawton
A few conundrums in our industry have caused my brow to furrow a little more of late. No, I’m not worrying about them, but I am seeing some trends that bear watching. As you know, the author …
Setting Goals for Your Writing Career
By Wendy Lawton
As agents, we often talk about our roles in career planning. That is often misunderstood. There are aspects in our control and aspects completely out of our control. Let me list a few of those:
Goals within
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The Glamorous Life of a Creative
By Wendy Lawton
I’m feeling inspired and ready to creatively tackle a complex project I’ve needed to tackle for a long time. My muse, you ask? Why I spent the weekend cleaning out closets, reorganizing the pantry and cleaning toilets. …
Quick Character Labels
By Wendy Lawton
I was reading a fiction manuscript last week that quickly described a character as a cripple. I winced when I read the word and stopped to think about why I had such an immediate revulsion. After all, …
Proposal Prep– Your Marketing Plans
The Case for the Book Proposal
Last week, Janet Grant wrote about the importance of writing an excellent comparative book section in your book proposal. You can find that post here. Those kind of specifics are invaluable.
But I can almost hear the collective writerly …
The Demise of Book Collecting?
By Wendy Lawton
Books as disposables. Nothing could be sadder.
Did you catch the the suggestion regarding books reportedly made by Marie Kondo, the organizing guru who hosts the Netflix show, Tidying Up? I read that she suggested that, ideally, …