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Concluding Your Book Well

September 29, 2021 //  by Janet Grant//  9 Comments

Concluding your book well is a challenge. It’s one thing to start off with gusto, another thing to make it through a potentially drooping middle, and still another to finish with flair.

Missing the Mark

One example of a book …

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Bookshop.org: An Online Alternative to Amazon

September 8, 2021 //  by Janet Grant//  7 Comments

Bookshop.org’s founder and CEO, Andy Hunter, could be viewed as prescient. The bookstore site launched in January 2020, just before COVID forced physical stores to lock their doors. Before Amazon downgraded the priority of shipping books and upped the priority …

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When Life Gets in the Way

August 29, 2021 //  by Cynthia Ruchti//  20 Comments

I posted the basic concept of this article a few years ago. In revisiting it, I found it at least as true now as it was then, if not more so. You may have observed something similar.

Life gets in …

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What Makes an Agent Say Yes?

August 18, 2021 //  by Janet Grant//  10 Comments

I wrote this blog post in 2009. Because so much of it remains true today, I thought I’d retread it with updates and take it out for another spin. After all, the quest to find an agent still goes on. …

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A Social Media Platform that REALLY Sells Books: TikTok

July 28, 2021 //  by Janet Grant//  13 Comments

I need to start out by apologizing. I know writers are weary of being told to build their platforms, to promote their books on social media, to, well, work magic at something most don’t particularly enjoy. I’m one of those …

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Five Ways to Wrangle Dialect

July 19, 2021 //  by Cynthia Ruchti//  13 Comments

I almost stopped reading the book that eventually opened my eyes to the power of inspirational fiction and set me on a path to author and agent. Almost set the book aside after a few pages.

Why? Because the dialect …

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Find a Place to Shine

June 20, 2021 //  by Wendy Lawton//  5 Comments

Have you found your unique place in the writing world where you can really shine? Janet Grant and I recorded a podcast last week on Words for Writers. It goes live on Tuesday, here. Ginny Yttrup, writing coach, posited …

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While You Wait

June 7, 2021 //  by Cynthia Ruchti//  23 Comments

Blogger: Cynthia Ruchti

What’s waiting got to do with writing? Sure, the two words share many of the same letters, but writing is an action verb and waiting isn’t. Right?

While you waitWriting and waiting have a lot in common. Few beginning …

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Testing the Website Waters

May 17, 2021 //  by Cynthia Ruchti//  16 Comments

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Have you been regularly testing the website waters to make sure your author website is doing its job well?

We’re not talking Google Analytics or SEO or meta-data and keywords for this round of testing. Instead, we’re …

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The Tragedy of Comedy

April 26, 2021 //  by Cynthia Ruchti//  9 Comments

Cynthia Ruchti

You deliver the punch line of your best joke ever. Someone in your circle of friends says, “I don’t get it.”

tragedyAnd thus is the tragedy of comedy. It doesn’t always work. Because the joke was poorly delivered? …

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