Blogger: Wendy Lawton
A Susan Branch calendar had a quote I love: “I’m trying to arrange my life so I don’t even have to be present.”
Bingo! That’s what I keep aiming for. I’m looking for the auto-pilot method of …
Productivity
How Do You Recharge?
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Normally I talk about the things I know or I try to give solid writing and publishing advice. Today I’m turning the tables. I’d like you to give advice. When you’ve come home from a long trip …
How to Get the Most from Your Beta Readers
Blogger: Mary Keeley
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 …
The Much-Dreaded Logjam
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Are you tired of hearing us talk about the agent time crunch? Unfortunately, it’s the reason for much of our agent angst. Most of us maintain a set level of clients and it takes more than a …
What Makes Me Cringe?
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
I’m heading out on a working vacation for two weeks, so I dusted off a post from about seven years ago that, unfortunately, still rings true. It’s especially timely in light of my absence. For the next …
Herding Cats (Again)
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
As you know by now, I’m an avid proponent of productivity systems. The weekend before last, my business/ organizational coach came to spend the weekend with me. This time it was to be a friend event, not …
Snowed Under
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Many of you got a good dose of snow over the weekend. I’m not going to talk about being snowed in but about that horrible feeling of being snowed under.
I decided to use these first few …
A Way You Can Help Your Agent
Blogger: Rachel Kent
In the publishing industry we are all juggling many tasks and often wear multiple “hats” each day. I know authors who are currently working on edits for one book, writing a second book, and putting a proposal …
Stress Relief
Blogger: Mary Keeley
List the goings-on in the publishing industry in the last months and writers and authors have had plenty of stress inducers. The important thing is, how are you responding to them? It makes all the difference. Stress …
Parkinson’s Laws and Productivity
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
You’ve probably heard of Parkinson’s Law: Work expands to fill the time available to complete it.
But have you heard of Parkinson’s Law of Triviality?
Both apply to those of us engaged in the publishing industry …