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blogger: Cynthia Ruchti
What truths do we hold as “self-evident”? With the United States’ Independence Day just behind us, many of us are still eating cake with strawberry stripes and blueberry stars, picking up yard evidence of expired sparklers, and …
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Do you think publishers are afraid to take on your book? Maybe you’ve decided, after much striving to find a publishing house, that your work is too (pick whichever apply):
blogger: Cynthia Ruchti
Among the many questions agents field at writers conference where newcomers to the industry are in attendance are these: …
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Authors often wonder what marketing materials they can ask their publishing house to create for them. A list of suggestions for new titles appears below for both physical events and online marketing.
Let me add that …
blogger: Cynthia Ruchti
Taking writing tips from vinyl? Is that a thing?
Vinyl is in retrograde, in a good way. Vinyl records are experiencing a resurgence among the hippest, hippiest, (and hippy-est), and among younger generations who find anything vintage …
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
I saw an author at a writers conference who was walking around in a daze as she thought about all the demands on writers to successfully publish today–both self-pub and traditional pub.
Here’s what her mind …
Blogger: Cynthia Ruchti
Marketing plan–two words that shiver the timbers of many a writer, both published and published-in-waiting.
It’s a topic that deserves more than one blog post. But it doesn’t have to call for antacids and prescription painkillers. …
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
I was looking at past blogs. Here is a blog I wrote six years ago. At that time it was somewhat of a futurist post. Now, so much of it has come true. Do you believe the …
Blogger: Cynthia Ruchti
Agents and editors sometimes–okay, often–either think or say, “I can’t tell you that.” It has nothing to do with secret, clandestine, coded attempts to frustrate authors. Momma–and God–always have reasons behind what they say or expect …
Blogger: Kathleen Y’Barbo
Janet here: Thanks once again to Kathleen Y’Barbo for standing in for me by allowing me to post the last of a three-part series on the author bio that Kathleen wrote for our blog several years ago.…
