Last week, we finished up our second writing intensive! It was a wonderful time and we were able to work in-depth with writers to help them grow toward publication. We were able to do some deep work on query …
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Happy new year! 2024!
We are all diving in to a new year with new goals and dreams! I know writers are always pressing hard to keep moving forward. The books have to be done on time. The proposals have …
Make Your First Pages Shine
I know a couple of you saw this post when I accidentally published it on the wrong day last week. Sorry about that! Here it is on the correct day…
The first page of your manuscript is more important than …
Focusing Your Blog Posts
A Books & Such client asked a great question on Facebook recently. She wanted to know what some experienced bloggers wished they had known before starting their blogs. The majority answered that they wished they had a focus, or direction, …
The Perfect Blog
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
I planned the perfect blog for you today. I was in the kitchen preparing a meal when it came to me. So very creative and I knew it would interest our blog readers. As I continued …
Newfangled New Year Redux
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
I’m starting off the new year with something old. Below is the first post ever written for our blog. And since we began the blog the first work day of January 2009, it seemed apropos to …
Unplugged
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
We expend many words encouraging writers to build their social media platform, develop a Facebook following, Twitter appropriately, explore Pinterest, Goodreads and many other online media. You’re supposed to have a knockout website and maybe even a …
Things Writers Should Keep Track Of: Part 3
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Databases and Fans
It’s exciting to receive fan letters though it’s often impossible to respond to each one individually. An author should acknowledge and thank the fans, even …
Things Writers Should Keep Track Of: Part 2
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
After Publication: Promotion
Once a book has released, the author is thrown into a world of promotion. The author is bombarded with blog tours, radio interviews, book reviewers …
Blogging: What Not to Do…
Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Here’s a list of frequent blogger mistakes.
1) Negativity: Don’t always focus on what’s wrong with the world or take the defensive side to everything. Positive bloggers are …