Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office
Finishing your work well is another challenge for the writer. It’s one thing to start off with gusto, another thing to make it through a potentially drooping middle, and still …
The Agents of Books & Such Literary Management Muse About Books, Publishing, and Life
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Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office
Finishing your work well is another challenge for the writer. It’s one thing to start off with gusto, another thing to make it through a potentially drooping middle, and still …
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Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Shakespeare wrote, “There’s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip.” How true when it comes to writing. You might start your manuscript off with a …
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Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Yesterday I opined about what makes a great beginning to a book. But beyond the first page, a strong structure sustains a reader’s interest, and that’s what …
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Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
“You had me at the first line.” Every author dreams of hearing readers proclaim that the first line of a book grabbed them by the lapels and …
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Blogger: Kathleen Y’Barbo, Publicist
Location: The Woodlands, Texas PR Office
Weather: Rainy and warm
Welcome to my all new day for posting Marketing Matters! We’ve decided that Friday is a better day for me to post so the other bloggers’ …
MARKETING MATTERS: Elements of a Marketing Plan, Part 1Read More
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Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
Weather: warm and cloudy
I’ve written about the content of titles this week and their length, appropriateness, etc., but I haven’t said much about their looks, their style and where they …
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Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Office, Nashville
Weather: Hot and windy
How many words should a title have? Well, that depends on a lot of things, but subtitles often carry the freight of conveying the content while the …
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Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Office, Nashville
Weather: Just plain HOT
In the further exploration of titles, what makes a good one, and what makes an appropriate one, I’ve resorted to my Oxford Universal Dictionary on Historical Principles…
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Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Office, Nashville
Weather: Hot for Spring
I was browsing the bookstores and my local library last week, and some things I’ve known for some time about titles were readily evident:
1) Titles are …
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Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
The final author quality I’m going to cover this week is discernment. Discernment is, essentially, the ability to make wise choices. It’s being able to weigh multiple …