Reversion of Rights
If you’re working with a publisher to bring your book into the world, make sure your contract has a reversion-of-rights clause. Such a clause will allow you to take back your creative work.
How Writers Find Readers-Part 2
A writer with one book out needs to focus to spreading the word in the most efficient way possible. Podcasts, TedX talks, and speaking gigs are the way to go.
The Power of Multiple Synopses
A synopsis boils a book down into a few words. Take the time to craft short and long synopses.
Ten Questions for Nancy Poling
An editorial service for new writers provides thorough and affordable feedback.
A Road Map for Writers and Authors: Part 1
Are you a writer, or are you an author? Here’s the difference. A writer has one story to tell, and although it may take years to finish a book, a writer will feel content when that book is done. An author–someone who aspires to have a career as a creative person–will feel driven to learn […]
Book Launch Strategies, Part 4: The Money Quote
A money quote from a professional book reviewer is an essential part of an author’s book page.
Ten Questions for C.Y. Corbett: Editorial Help for New Authors
An editorial service for new writers provides thorough and affordable feedback.
Book Launch Strategies, Part 2
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Marylee MacDonald’s Book Launch Tracker can help you plan effective book launches. Essentially, a tracker functions like a runway. If you want your book to have liftoff, you need a three- to six-month lead time, but if you don’t you lay out the tasks in advance, the day of your […]
What’s the Best Launch Strategy? Part 1
The answer to “What’s the best book launch strategy?” is that a successful launch strategy depends on you. The only thing that won’t work is to have no launch plan. And, yet, that’s the situation most writers find themselves in. Tongue hanging out, they can’t wait to “get the book up on Amazon,” and then […]
Your book launch simplified
“A book without a book launch plan is just a fantasy.” Did I hear that someplace, or am I making it up? In any case, I’m launching a new book on April 17, 2020, and I thought it might be helpful if I take you through this journey with me. I am by no means […]
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