A cute remake of a famous commercial:
The original commercial in case you haven’t seen it for a while:
News You Can Use – Feb. 28, 2012
Why Authors Need Agents - Four professionals weigh in on the discussion.
How to Stop Procrastinating and Start Writing - Read this when you have the time.
Questions an Agent Might Ask You - Be prepared if an agent calls you with these questions. It might happen today.
E-b00ks: The Giant Disruption - another breathless evaluation and ominous prediction about publishers. From the UK.
Why …
Fun Fridays – Feb. 24, 2012
The Joke of the Year Award goes to Tim Vine in London at the Lafta Awards banquet. Award is given to the year's best one-liner jokes or puns. Below is the winner and then five more from Tim Vine. Can you top these?
Conjunctivitis.com – that’s a site for sore eyes
Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels.
Eric Bristow asked me why I put superglue on one of …
News You Can Use – Feb. 21, 2012
My Favorite Article of the Week - Please read it and make your agent happy.
What Publishers Can Learn From the Airlines- Andy Le Peau of IVP renders a very clever take on what publishing could look like if they would only emulate other industry practices.
Amanda Knox Signs a $4 Million Book Deal - Sigh...Think about it for a second. In 2005 a relatively unknown senator from Illinois got $1.9 …
7 Ways Agents Measure Social Media
Guest Blog by Thomas Umstattd We are thrilled to have Thomas Umstattd as our guest today. His company built our web site and we unabashedly recommend their services. Thomas built his first website at the age of 13 and taught his first web design class at only 16 years old. He has been helping authors and small businesses use the web ever since. Thomas currently serves as the CEO of Castle Media …
Fun Fridays – Feb. 17, 2012
If you haven't seen this new Children's book, listen to it today on this book trailer.
Goodnight iPad by Ann Droyd....
News You Can Use – Feb. 14, 2012
It has begun - The Welcome Assault on Costly Textbooks- But is this the best way to do it? Free online publisher-quality textbooks for five of the country’s most-attended college courses. Funded by big charitable organizations like The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It could change the economic future of some major textbook publishers. I fear the homogenization of Education or the control of …
News You Can Use – Feb. 7, 2012
Author Says McGraw-Hill Cheats on Royalties - Details of a pending lawsuit.
What is Pinterest? - The latest craze in Social Media Networks. AuthorMedia shows you the simple steps to sign up and tips on how to use it in the next article below.
Three Ways an Author Can Use Pinterest - Last week an editor told me how she was following a couple of her authors on Pinterest and how much she liked …