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Know Means No: Giving Editors and Agents a Reason to Say Yes

August 10, 2017 //  by Cynthia Ruchti//  28 Comments

Know means no.

Blogger: Cynthia Ruchti

What do you need to know to make it less likely an agent or editor will say no to your proposal?

know means no

KNOW who you are (and who you aren’t) as a writer.

You may …

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Goal, Motivation, Conflict: The Importance for Authors

June 29, 2017 //  by Cynthia Ruchti//  14 Comments

Goal, Moviation, Conflict

by Cynthia Ruchti

Every novice novelist soon learns about goal, motivation, and conflict. The mysterious GMC factor drives a good novel. And it isn’t produced by General Motors Corporation.

Debra Dixon wrote a classic resource for writers–…

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Don’t Breach Your Publishing Contract by Mistake!

May 18, 2017 //  by Rachel Kent//  18 Comments

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 …

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Praying for Your Publishing House and Editors

April 20, 2017 //  by Rachel Kent//  26 Comments

Blogger: Rachel Kent

Bethany House hosts a prayer day on their blog the first Sunday of every month for the authors with releases that month. How cool is that?! I know many CBA publishing houses spend time in prayer about …

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Let’s Talk About an Author Website

February 14, 2017 //  by Michelle Ule//  39 Comments

Blogger: Michelle Ule

Sitting in for Wendy Lawton busy preparing for a writer’s conference.

Let’s talk about author websites today.

While you can get plenty of advice and tutorials from many spots, I want to talk about my experience with …

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What to Write Next?

January 10, 2017 //  by Michelle Ule//  36 Comments

Blogger: Michelle Ule

Sitting in for the traveling Wendy Lawton

I’ve spent most of the last week in a flu delirium haunted by a nagging question, “what to write next?”

As I floated in and out of consciousness, heroines whose …

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Can a Writing Career Be Planned?

October 2, 2016 //  by Janet Grant//  33 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

What does an agent mean when she says career planning is a big part of what she does with her clients? Isn’t that a bit like saying you paddled your boat through the Colorado River white …

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How to face discouragement: Advice from published authors.

August 21, 2015 //  by Rachel Kent//  26 Comments

Blogger: Rachel Kent

I asked some published authors to share with us what they do when they become discouraged in their writing. This happens to everybody, even those who are published!

Multi-published authors still experience rejections and sometimes have heartbreaking …

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Discoverability, how to get published, fame, writing life, King Tut, infamous, publication, author platform, Michelle Ule,

Writing Contests and Timing

August 12, 2015 //  by Michelle Ule//  60 Comments

Blogger: Michelle Ule

Filling in for Mary Keeley who is traveling today.

If you’re a writer, have you entered any contests?

I spoke with some writers recently who asked about the value of contests.

One had had a bad experience …

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Is All Publicity Good?

July 3, 2015 //  by Rachel Kent//  33 Comments

Blogger: Rachel Kent

While I was in Orlando, FL for the International Christian Retail Show (ICRS), I checked Yahoo news and saw that they were reporting a failed publicity stunt for Grey–the new book by the Fifty Shades of …

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