Blogger: Rachelle Gardner
Every time I blog about platform or social media, the vocal response in the comments reminds me that it’s a difficult subject for many authors. Everyone wonders how and when to build a platform, and many writers …
Fiction
Writing a First Draft
Blogger: Rachelle Gardner
National Novel Writing Month starts this Friday! For those who don’t know what this is, you can go to the NaNoWriMo site here and learn all about it. The point is to write 50,000 words of …
Manuscript Checklist
Almost all of the writers conferences are over for the year. Now begins the busy time of refining, rewriting, editing, and polishing to make your manuscript ready for agents’ and editors’ scrutiny. I’m going to point out a few things …
Why a Freelance Editor Is a Good Investment for Your WIP
Recently, two co-author clients went back into their proposal to update the social media numbers and discovered a typo deep in their manuscript they had missed along the way. Would a professional editor have caught this earlier? Likely so. Today, …
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The “Where” Questions
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Today, I have a couple of “where” questions for you. These are questions you should answer before putting together your proposal.
The first “where” question: Where are you …
The “What” Questions of Proposal Writing
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Today is “what” day. These are the “what” questions you should ask before starting in on a new proposal.
The first question is: What do books in this …
A Guide to Proposals: Lesson 4
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Your Platform and Marketing Section
I know I touched on this yesterday, but I’d like to take a more in-depth look at what it means to have a …
A Guide to Proposals: Lesson 3
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
What should go into a proposal? What’s the basic format for a proposal? Fiction and nonfiction proposals are slightly different, but I’d like to give all of you …
While U Wait: Build Inventory
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office
Weather: 89º and sunny
Yesterday I shared Susan Lawson’s journal entry. She, like so many waiting writers, asks what to write next? It’s a valid question. Does one begin the …
Bookstore Market Research: Historical Romance
Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Barnes & Noble, Santa Rosa, Calif.
While I was in the bookstore, I focused my research on historical romance. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, we’ll start with the pictures of what I saw …