Book marketing is time-consuming and tiring and many writers dread it. But it can help you grow your business. Stephanie Chandler, author of The Nonfiction Book Marketing Plan, encourages...
A good book proposal is key to landing a book deal.
It’s a business plan for your book.
It helps your book stay focused on its main idea (its thesis).
It helps you determine where your book...
We love books. We support writers on the journey to write and publish books. We’re even a book publisher.
But a print book may not be the right format for your content.
Many are the possible...
To become a nonfiction bestselling author, it all comes down to numbers.
To make the New York Times Best Seller list, you need to sell 5,000 to 10,000 copies in a week.
To make The Wall Street...
A query letter is a sales piece. It's your first (and sometimes only) opportunity to present your book to an agent. Literary agent Miriam Altshuler advises on what to include in a query letter:
- ...
I visited Universal Studios a lot as a kid. One of my favorite rides was The Studio Tour.
You hopped into a tram and rode through various film sets. One set was a plane crash. Another...
Book marketing is overwhelming and the amount of advice can be exhausting. Emily Enger of Good Enough Book Marketing recommends two of the best strategies to promote your book: Ads and trade...
I know what you’re thinking: “How are screenwriting principles applicable to writing a book?”
It seems farfetched, right?
Book writing is tens of thousands of words of prose....
Learning to write for publication is something every person can do.
Whether you want to start a blog, write for your nonprofit newsletter, publish an article, or even a book - you can do it!
But...
When people read your book, it's because they expect you to be the expert. That expertise is built upon your experience, of course.
Experience alone isn’t enough.
Your book also needs...
Christina Quist, author of Kaleidoscope: absurdly short stories of traveling and unraveling, candidly talks about topics every first-time memoirist has questions about, including:
- How to define...
Most every successful writer has at least one writing ritual.
Rituals can be bizarre, like certain smells (rotten apples) or sounds (trains or the background noise of a coffee shop). But rituals...
