Archives for November, 2012
Opening 2 Pages/Memoir: MarketingtheMuse Video Workshop
In this Two Page Tell Workshop filmed by Ninety Degrees Media @ the 2012 SCWC, the author reads the first two pages of her memoir...or is it? Would you turn to page 3?
Tim Ferriss: Writing Is The Easy Part
Take a look at a day (or week) in the life of a NYT best selling independent author, Tim Ferriss. As I tell writers all the time,writing the book is the easiest part. Selling it? Ah, there's the challenge. Click ...
Entrepreneurial Authors, Can You Do What Book Publicists Do?
Not an endorsement of her services but I did like this Huff Post blog penned by a book marketer and author, Penny C. Sanvevieri. Here's what a traditional publicist does for an author and what entrepreneurial authors must learn how to ...
Simon & Schuster’s New Self Publishing Imprint: Archway Publishing
Yep, Simon & Schuster have joined the other titans of publishing by adding a self publishing arm that caused one commenter on PW to write this: There's a typo in your headline. I think you meant to say 'Simon & ...
Opening 2 Pages/Zombie Fiction: MarketingtheMuse Video Workshop @ SCWC!
NEW! MarketingtheMuse Workshop filmed by Ninety Degrees Media @ The Southern California Writers Conference, Sept. 2012
Two Page Tell is a new workshop I've added to the MarketingtheMuse tutorials. Since so many writers are bypassing the literary agent 'audition' and going directly to independent publishing ...
Author Tim Ferriss Defies Traditional Publishing!
'.....Last week, Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa Foolproof: Recipes You Can Trust sold roughly 66,000 books through BookScan. If you walk into Barnes & Noble, you will likely see walls of her books, which her publisher has paid for, just like Coca-Cola pays ...
CONGRATULATIONS TO LOUISE ERDRICH!
I was thrilled to see that Louise Erdrich's The Round House won the 2012 National Book Award. Her story about rape of a native American Woman, society reaction and her family's rage is beyond compelling. Given these times when 'rape' ...
Amazon’s Best Books 2012
Amazon has released its list of the top 100 books of 2012, as well as top 10 lists in over two dozen categories, from children's books to celebrity picks.
Notice what's # 1-Louise Erdrich's latest novel about rape and injustice posted ...
Reinvention After 70? Author Madeline Sharples Did Just That!
I studied journalism in high school and college and wrote for the high school newspaper, but I started to fulfill my dream to work as a creative writer and journalist late in life. My memoir, Leaving the Hall Light On: A ...
Scholastic Donates 1 Million Books To Sandy’s Victims!
Scholastic Books is da bomb!
Click here to read about their very generous donation to Hurricane Sandy's victims.