119 articles on "author"

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...

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Why Internet Authors Don't Need Critics

I love to help people, and I'm always ready to give advice to people who ask. For instance, there's a lot of people out there seeking advice because they've written a book. A lot of people. Almost as many as the number of people who g...

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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...

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The Degradation of Fitness Science One Example

In an article by a well known "functional/core exercise" proponent, there is an attempt to affiliate the concepts of microscopic life of the amoeba with human cellular processes, and "functional training" when the author claims: "Movement, survival a...

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Five Steps to Goal-Setting

What would you like to achieve in your lifetime? Author Basil S. Walth once said, "If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to get there?" These are words well spoken, because whether you're working toward freelancing full-...

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Why Publishers Buy Books 28 Reasons

Editors will buy a book for one or more of the followingreasons:1. The author's previous books have sold well2. They love a book and think it will sell3. They think a book will sell4. They love it enough to publish, regardless of itscommercial p...

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Platform Development Tip #1: Switch Writing Hats!

Platform Development Tip #1: Switch Writing Hats! by: Jill Nagle 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 fi...

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Book Expo America for the Author or Aspiring Author

Book Expo America is the book industry's largest annual U. S. event where publishers exhibit their next season books to retail book buyers. The event rotates around Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C, and Los Angeles, and occasionally to other m...

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Writing Tips: How to Write an Author Bio

Author bios are one way for the reader to get to know you, the author of their favorite story, article, or book, a little bit more intimately. This is your time to sell yourself to potential readers and editors. Including your author bio with queries...

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