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Help a Good Cause and Your Author Platform

May 25, 2017 //  by Mary Keeley//  27 Comments

Blogger: Mary Keeley

Last week a client received a request to do an advertisement to help promote a good cause. She wondered if it would be wise because it didn’t appear to relate to the books she writes. She was …

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Author, Check Your Online Presence

May 3, 2017 //  by Mary Keeley//  27 Comments

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When your book proposal interests agents and editors, the first thing they’ll do is investigate your website, blog, and social media activity. That’s why it’s so important that each area of your online presence compliments the others …

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How to Get the Most from Your Beta Readers

April 19, 2017 //  by Mary Keeley//  21 Comments

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I highly recommend participating in a critique group. You can improve your own craft as you critique your partners’ work often as much as you can by receiving their feedback on your work. But this can’t replace …

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How Has an Editor’s Job Changed?

April 9, 2017 //  by Janet Grant//  15 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

The other day, my assistant, Michelle, asked me how an editor’s role has changed since my first book released, which was in the mid-1980s. Some of my responses surprised her; so I thought it might be …

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In Search of Inspiration and New Ideas

March 8, 2017 //  by Mary Keeley//  17 Comments

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It’s been a few years since I blogged about where to get inspiration for your writing. One suggestion I gave for engaging readers back then was to relate to current events and the cultural issues they illicit. …

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Deadlines: Are They Set in Stone?

March 1, 2017 //  by Mary Keeley//  29 Comments

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Count yourself blessed if you have an editorial deadline looming. It means you have a new book contract. Your agent should have negotiated a realistic manuscript due date during the contract negotiation, based on your other writing …

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Fresh Approach: How to Delight and Surprise Your Reader

February 19, 2017 //  by Janet Grant//  28 Comments

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One question I’m often asked is whether I see the same ol’  ideas in queries.

Indeed I do.

That begs the question: What can a writer do to be sure the idea he or she is …

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Work Patterns for the Way You Think

February 8, 2017 //  by Mary Keeley//  26 Comments

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I always assumed I was a process thinker through and through. But I’m learning that isn’t always the case. Sometimes my mind goes off on a creative tangent. Maybe it’s a matter of adapting, unknowingly, to the …

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Sound Bytes on Writing Well

February 1, 2017 //  by Mary Keeley//  27 Comments

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When you Google books on writing, you’ll see a plethora of excellent books by writing experts. It can be overwhelming. How can writers absorb all those volumes at the same time they’re being encouraged to write, write, …

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Writing a Breakout Book: Icons

January 29, 2017 //  by Janet Grant//  18 Comments

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Recently my book club took a Dashiell Hammett tour of San Francisco. We ate at John’s Grill (which appears in The Maltese Falcon, the book our club read in preparation for the tour). The guide …

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