41 articles on "authors"

Writer School

WRITER SCHOOL?Copyright 2004, Michael LaRoccaHere's something from my mailbag. "Dear Michael, do you need todo good in school if you want to be a writer? I stink at schooland all my friends laugh at me when I tell them I want to write,but I&apos...

Writing  writing school write authors even
For Beginners: 10 Ways To Prepare To Get Published

For Beginners: 10 Ways To Prepare To Get Published by: Jill Nagle (Skip directly to ten for the fastest shortcut!) Like any field, excellent writing requires study, practice and mentorship. Very few successful authors ever published their first ...

Writing  writing authors published help
Distribute Your Self-Published Book Part 1

Distribute Your Self-Published Book (Part 1)Judy Cullins c 2003 All Rights ReservedWhere is your book now? With a distributor? In a book store?Or, did it already die an early death after a few months? New self-published authors often believe they nee...

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Discovering Your Strengths

Discovering Your Strengths by: Kathy Paauw "Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer." Peter Drucker Man...

Self Improvement And Motivation  self improvement motivation talents strengths talent authors
Platform Development Tip #1 Switch Writing Hats!

Platform-Building Tip #1: Switch Writing Hats!Around eighty percent of nonfiction books today are written by “experts,” that is people who have a) earned credentials in the field they’re writing about, b) germinated information via articles, li...

Writing  writing book authors platform
Publishing Trends Traditional vs ePublishing

Publishing Trends: Traditional vs ePublishingYou’ve done what most people only talk about. You’ve written a book, spent countless hours agonizing for just the right words only to delete many of them in the painful editing process. After many mont...

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Consider Self Publishing in Ebook Format

Consider Self Publishing in Ebook Format by: John R Today, more than every before authors are presented with publishing opportunities that have never existed before. This is not to understate the hard work that authors have to go through to get ...

Writing  writing ebook authors ebooks publishing
Interviewing an Author: Don't Be Left Speechless

Interviewing an Author: Don't Be Left Speechless by: Stephen Earley Jordan Edited by Jenny Wilson Joyce Carol Oates. Langston Hughes. Anne Sexton. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Nikki Giovanni. The names of authors (dead and alive) can go on and on....

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Will Your Book Sell?

The Kindly, Caring Literary Agent is probably extinct. Today's agents are more likely to treat you like a paychecks than like the sensitive creative person you are. You won't get your hand held when you're blue. You won't have you...

Writing  writing publishing book publishers authors
Divine Authorship

Divine Authorship by: Soni Pitts What does the story of your life say about you? Does it speak of heroic journeys into new and exciting lands of achievement and growth? Or is it an angry and repetitive diatribe against the vagaries of a wantonly...

Self Improvement And Motivation  self improvement motivation divine authorship