Helping to Change the World…Word by Word
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Helping to Change the World Word by Word
Don’t tell me you haven’t done this with your own books.
I’ll admit that after leaving a bookstore, my clients tend to have their books face-out. (I do not recommend moving books around! Publishers pay good money for product placement, and the poor booksellers have enough to worry about.)
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In the classic 1999 movie comedy Office Space, there are many memorable lines, such as, “The people to cake ratio is too big,” describing an office party, and “Yeah, I’m going to need you to …” sentence starter for anything the boss wants, to my favorite, delivered by one of the consultants tasked with finding inefficiencies, “What is it you do here?” I have thought of asking that question any …
Have you ever walked from one room in your house to the next, then wondered what you were there for? Yeah. Me too. I do remember that I’d gone there for a specific reason—only to find my mind completely blank. Why did I come in here? I find that happens occasionally when I’m writing and all of a sudden I can’t remember what color eyes I’d given my recurring police chief …
Did that headline get your attention? It was intentional. There are two key words in it, act and now, that are trigger words to make you read what I have written. When the words revolutionary and success are added, it targets the readers of this blog. And to top it off, it was made personal by using the word your. It is possible to make this “revolutionary” keyword work in several …
Today’s video is for all the science geeks in the room. The periodic table, sung in numerical order, plus examples of each element as well! {If the video is not embedded in your email, click through to the site itself to view.]
Self Doubt ___________ Who am I, Lord, that I think I can write, that I have anything to say, that I can speak sometimes for you? I have a middling brain, at best, and some education, but the longer I live, the less I know, it seems. I can be lazy, thick-headed, shortsighted, and careless. There are so many others who seem so much brighter and bolder, so much more inspired and insightful than I …
In 2015, Brad Martin, the President and CEO of Penguin Random House Canada, was quoted as saying the following: “I’m not interested in a book that is going to generate less than $100,000 in revenue unless the editor or publisher [division] has a compelling vision for the book and/or the author…If the person that’s championing that book in the acquisitions meeting doesn’t have a compelling view of …
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An unscientific Internet search shows that currently, four million books are published each year, with the U.S. leading the pack with over 275,000. So choosing which books to read can be daunting. I struggle to read every book that interests me, much less those on the fringes. I try to be careful with nonfiction. Since I’m interested in a number of topics, I quickly go down the proverbial rabbit …
Below is an interesting infographic that may be of help with this question. Provided by K.M. Weiland at www.HelpingWritersBecomeAuthors.com. Add your thoughts in the comments below.
