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Who knew not taking time to adjust your privacy settings on social media could create a tangled mess of chaotic, unwanted, unpleasant hairball-like clogs?
Who knew that self-publishing a book is rarely a natural first step to traditional publishing?
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I remember the day I gave up gossip.
For me, it was part of my spiritual journey. Every time I saw gossip in a list with murder, adultery, stealing, and other vile practices, I felt smugly “safe” from all the …
blogger: Cynthia Ruchti
Writers often live a good news/bad news existence, toggling from one to the other. A keynote speaker at a recent writers’ conference used the “Oh, that’s good. No that’s bad” children’s book format to talk about the …
Blogger: Rachel Kent
When you get a publishing contract to sign, it’s important to read it because it’s a legal, binding document between you and the publisher. Even if your agent has already read the contract and thinks it looks …
Blogger: Rachel Kent (Mary Keeley and I have switched blog days, so I’ll be posting on Friday now. Look for Mary’s posts on Wednesday.)
When I first started working at Books & Such as an intern back in 2005, I …
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
If you hope for a significant writing career one of the best things you can do is to begin amassing a crack team. That would include an agent, maybe a publicity or social media consultant, a critique …
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
The last two Tuesdays I posted blogs about what I’m looking for in both newly-published writers and unpublished writers. Today I’ll talk about the well-published writer. This writer:
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
It’s sometimes easy to lose track of the real reason we’re doing this work of writing books, publishing books, and publicizing what’s been published. I’ve seen a number …
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Email is so amazing! The fact that we can communicate privately and instantly without sending a stamped letter is awesome!
Email saves so much time when it comes …
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
What’s in your files?
An author should be able to open up his or her files (typically in a filing cabinet) and find a bunch of information. Here’s …
