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Having a Difficult Time Writing a Book Blurb? You’re Not Alone.
Originally published on angelascottauthor.com by Angela Scott Here you are. You’ve just completed your mega manuscript and now it’s all come down to this: the writing of the book blurb. This is perhaps the BIGGEST selling factor your book will ever have. It’s the part that lets readers know what your mega manuscript is all...
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Gordon Ramsay Will You Edit My Book?
by Sherrie Wilkolaski Radio Interview on Big Blend Magazine It’s official, I’m a workaholic. With that being said, you can imagine that I don’t have, or should I say, I don’t make much time to indulge in things like watching TV. With my busy work schedule, it isn’t at the top of my “to do”...
Leaps of Faith
Originally published on www.writerschatstew.com by Sonja Hegman Publishing a book is terrifying. With memoir, one worries what their loved ones will think of them. With career/business books, one worries that people will call them a quack, a hack, a dumbass. With fiction, well, there’s a lot with fiction. You get the point. This week’s topic...
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The Toils of Professional Book Editors
by Ellie Maas Davis “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.” –Dorothy Parker It happened twice this past week. Once two weeks ago, before that it’d been at least six months. Like all things insidious, sad, and uncanny, they seem to travel in threes, and...
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Getting Personal in the Increasingly Anonymous World of Publishing: Editors and Authors
by Ellie Maas Davis Strangely, over the years, I’ve found I rather appreciate finding an author bio enclosed at the tail end of a manuscript I’m about to edit. An author photo, which long ago might frustrate me for poking a hole through the veil of anonymity, now brings me pleasure. It isn’t as if...
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Indie Authors Watch Out: Readers Are Looking At the Quality of Self-published Books
by Sherrie Wilkolaski Of the three browsers I regularly have open on my laptop, there are always at least 2-3 tabs dedicated to a page on Amazon, for one reason or another. Perhaps I’m looking up an author’s reviews, checking in on the Amazon sales rank or want to see what their key words are...
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Choosing an Editor
by Ellie Maas Davis When it comes to finding an editor to help you with your book, make sure it’s someone who responds to what you’ve written and how you’ve written it. Make no mistake: no one likes to be edited. It can be an incredibly painful process. You’re basically paying someone to poke holes...
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A Junior Editor’s Advice to the Novice Author
by John William Myers IV I am lucky enough to get paid for my hobby. As much as I’d like to say this is for my tennis or scuba diving skills, it is actually more fun than that. I love to edit. In high school and particularly in college I was a decent writer, but...
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3 Tips to Writing a Better Children’s Book
by Sherrie Wilkolaski Are you a children’s book author? Today is your lucky day. I’m going to give you a few tips on how to write a better children’s book. Having worked with many children’s book authors throughout my career, I’ve seen it all; authors with traditional publishers, agents, successful and some still trying to...
