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Fun Fridays – December 9, 2022
Today’s video is a clever advertisement for the Christmas season. Can you come up with new anagrams for Christmas? Enjoy!
Working With Editors
Today’s guest post is from Cindy K. Sproles. She is a novelist, editor, speaker, and conference director. She suffers under the literary guidance of Bob Hostetler. Hopefully, she will be rewarded for her patience someday. Find out more at CindySproles.com. ____________________ Our penned words are our prized possessions. Once a contract is received, our work goes to the editors. Despite our …
Three Fun Links
Since we’re all busy preparing for Christmas, I thought you might enjoy a brief respite. Here is a fun link that is also useful to writers. What year was the word you want to use officially born, as in, first used in print? What words were born during your birth year? Have fun exploring! Time Traveler by Merriam-Webster: Words from 2021 I love Christmas hymns. My favorites are too numerous to list …
Three Myths About an Agent’s Acceptance
You’ve worked hard. You wrote a great book. You pitched it just right, and the literary agent has called you saying they want to represent you and your project. Hooray! But there are some misunderstandings or myths about what happens next. 1. Your Book Will Soon Be Published Just because an agent has said yes doesn’t guarantee success. Nor does it speed up the inexorable process. Remember that …
Fun Fridays – December 2, 2022
Today’s video is a metaphor for a writers conference. I’ll let you figure out the word picture. 🙂 (If you can’t see the video in your email newsletter subscription, click through to the site itself.)
Pet Peeves
Pet peeves. We all have them, and we all do things that are pet peeves for others. How about starting a blog post with a two-word sentence, which isn’t a sentence? Anyone? Bueller? My Pet Peeves On one hand, I am like everyone else. I don’t like repetitive tapping or spam phone calls late at night. Those are the easy ones. I am also incredibly annoyed by bicyclists who never, ever observe any kind …
Rejection Is NOT Failure
Hi, my name is Bob; and I get rejected. As a blogger, article writer, game writer, and writer of books, I suffer “rejection” on a nearly daily basis—and not only because of my slovenly appearance. As I often tell people, publishing is a highly subjective business; and what one editor pooh-poohs another may ooh-ooh. “Sure, Bob,” you may say, “but rejection still hurts.” I hear you. It feels awful, …
Free Webinar: How to Start Building a Rejection-Proof Author Platform
It is undeniable that readers out there who would gobble up your book if only they knew it existed. (Note the post-Thanksgiving pun?) “Discoverability” is a buzzword that describes the effort to have those readers able to discover your book before it is published. The more your target audience knows you exist, the more successful you will be as an author. Your mission is to connect …
Fun Fridays – November 25, 2022
Below is a picture of the indie author at work, writing, editing, designing, typesetting, marketing, selling, accounting–simultaneously OR A picture of ANY author trying to balance home life with writing and marketing and improving their craft while reading this blog.