Friday, June 16, 2017
How Do You Know When You're Done? Tips to Evaluate Whether Your Manuscript Is Really Ready
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One of my private clients has been working on her memoir for quite a few years. She's workshopped it through my online classes and w...
Friday, June 9, 2017
Selling Your Nonfiction Book on a Proposal Alone: An Interview with Katherine Ozment
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It used to be common to sell nonfiction books via a book proposal--an expanded outline, a synopsis, marketing research for the topic, a...
Friday, June 2, 2017
Launching a Debut Novel: Working with Publicists and Promotion
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It's been a month of book birth announcements. Another student from my online classes and private coaching has just released her ...
Friday, May 26, 2017
Saving Your Work--Ways to Keep Your Writing Safe Today
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I spent much of yesterday at the Apple Store, which often starts out as fun but ends up being exhausting. A friend 's laptop had a...
Friday, May 19, 2017
Finding the Right Home for Your Memoir: A Success Story
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I first met Elisa Korenne in one of my online classes. Elisa is a professional singer/songwriter with several CDs to her credit. ...
Friday, May 12, 2017
Storyboarding Multiple Narrators--How to Make Sense of the Whole Story
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I get this question a lot: When a book has more than one storyline, timeline, or main narrator, how do you make sure each storyline wor...
Friday, May 5, 2017
If You're Writing a Novel, Do You Know Its Category? An Agent's Perspective
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One of the writers in my advanced online class posted this article on our weekly classroom discussion. She asked the provocative qu...
Friday, April 28, 2017
A Great Key to Building Your Story: Things Are Never as They Appear
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I got some of the best writing advice this week: In a good story, things are never as they appear. At first, I debated this advice: ...
Friday, April 21, 2017
How NOT to Give Up When You Get Feedback on Your Manuscript
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A good friend recently attended a top-level writing conference, one where you have to be approved to enter. She was accepted and went ...
Friday, March 31, 2017
The Hunt for an Agent: Pitch Conferences, Research, and Other Fun Tools
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Spring is the time of new birth, and that includes book manuscripts. Writers have been working hard all winter and want to bring their ...
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