Is professional editing worth it? The answer depends on just one thing: Where, in your development as an author, you currently are. If this is the first book you’ve ever written and you’re mostly self-taught, professional editing is most likely not the only step you need to take between banging out your manuscript and [...]
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Posted March 22, 2011 ·
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Posted February 27, 2011 ·
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This guest blog post by Phyllis Zimbler Miller of Miller Mosaic Social Media Marketing describes her leap from learning how to promote her self-published novel — to teaching others how to use social media to promote their creative offerings. * * * In December, 2007, as I approached my sixtieth birthday, my novel, Mrs. Lieutenant, had been [...]
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Posted December 8, 2010 ·
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Brands are those vague but persuasive associations we conjure up whenever we think of any well-known product. Mac computers. TIDE laundry detergent. Nike running shoes. Brands are also the far more complex associations that come to mind whenever we think of well-known authors. Often, they’re a flash of images mixed with a dominant feeling, [...]
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Posted November 24, 2010 ·
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“Sometimes the big barriers in life,” writes award-winning author Carolyn Howard-Johnson, as she remembers her first attempt to get a writing job at Good Housekeeping Magazine in the early 1960s, “can’t be seen and acknowledged. Because we may not even know that those barriers are there.” After a 1950s childhood in Utah, during which [...]
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Posted November 17, 2010 ·
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One of life’s persistent problems — apart from finding the time to write that book you were meant to write — is doing things you don’t especially want to do. It can be as mundane as getting up at 6:00 on Sunday morning, because you promised two friends you’d go running. Or it can be [...]
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Posted August 13, 2010 ·
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The Large-Canvas Reward Writing a book offers a large canvas: two hundred and fifty-odd pages in which to articulate, refine, and cultivate those thoughts and ideas, feelings and experiences that preoccupy you, and have, often for years. But a book manuscript offers a large canvas not only in the medium of space, but in the [...]
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Posted August 11, 2010 ·
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The hardest part of writing a book is getting started, keeping at it, and crossing the completion line. What makes those pivotal phases so difficult is the appearance, again and again, of five obstacles that seem insurmountable: 1. Inertia 2. Fear 3. No Time 4. Wavering Motivation 5. Unclear Commitment Of course, none of these [...]
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Posted July 9, 2009 ·
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She calls herself a Personal Transformation Coach. But Lynn Serafinn can help you do more than transform personally, life-changing as that may be. She can help you transform professionally — by showing you how she became a well-promoted, best-selling author. Here’s the big-picture overview: Stage One: Pre-Launch Using largely online tools, Serafinn wisely [...]
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Posted May 11, 2009 ·
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The most difficult problem you face in writing your book can be summarized in just two words. Getting started. You have a brilliant idea, of course, and an outline or some notes. Maybe even a chapter draft, or two. But now what? If you are like most will-be authors, you begin casting [...]
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Posted April 28, 2009 ·
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Not what you might think. That is, not what you might think — if you are an author or will-be author. You’ve most likely heard of Susan Boyle, the Scottish singer whose jaw-dropping performance has inspired adoration worldwide. She appeared on Britain’s Got Talent, an English program similar to American Idol, the famous amateur talent [...]
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