How To Podcast Your Way to Publishing Success
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Criticism Is an Unhappy Part of the Business
I would like to tell you about a most enjoyable day. Our agency's guidelines request that unsolicited manuscripts come via the post (I know it's old-school but it works for us), but we still receive e-mail submissions. I spent an entire morning going through that particular in-box, having an assistant send standard e-mail rejection letters, since none were anything our agency could/would …
Rewrite is Constant
Whether you’re a published or unpublished writer, aspiring or “arrived” (as if), you have probably discovered one of the foibles of the writing life: Rewrite is constant. You can’t escape it. In fact, unless you’re a brand new writer, you probably can’t help but edit and rewrite repeatedly and reflexively during the course of a day. You might be walking through the airport and find yourself …
020 How to Get Unstuck With Your Writing Career
On the Christian Publishing Show, I don’t just like talking with publishing insiders, I also like talking with folks in related industries. It is often in these related industries where some of the more revolutionary insights come from. One such industry is art. Authors and artists face many of the same challenges. Today we will be talking with Matt Tommey, an artist from Asheville, North …
020 How to Get Unstuck With Your Writing Career
How to Get Unstuck With Your Writing Career
You can listen to this episode 020 How to Get Unstuck With Your Writing Career on Christian Publishing Show.
Even the Best Get Rejected
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I've written about rejection before and yet it is a topic that continues to fascinate.
Recently Adrienne Crezo did an article on famous authors and their worst rejection letters. I thought you might enjoy reading a couple highlights of that article and some additional stories I have collected over the years.
George Orwell's Animal Farm was rejected by Alfred Knopf saying it …
Fun Fridays – April 12, 2019
For those among the thousands who were snookered by my April Fool’s Day post last week, imagine if your 4th grade teacher gave you a spelling test like the one in this video. It would have been fun if he had thrown in a real word like floccinaucinihilipilification. The word’s definition is “the action or habit of estimating something as worthless” – sort of like this …
Book Proposal Basics – Back-Cover Copy for Nonfiction
Last week we talked about writing back-cover copy for fiction. As you can imagine, writing back-cover copy for nonfiction is a different exercise. The purpose here is not to hook your reader into wanting to read a story, but to show the reader why your book will be helpful specifically to him. The nonfiction reader is not looking to escape reality, but to make her life better. Life can be made …
Details Are Great Except When They’re Not
One attribute of good writers is an eye for detail. Whether you’re writing fiction or nonfiction, relating relevant and memorable details can make your writing sing like a soprano at the opera. Like Nero Wolfe’s love for the Phalaenopsis Aphrodite orchid or Wendell Berry’s onomatopoeic depiction of the “good, good, good” sound of men drinking from a moonshine whiskey jug in Jayber Crow. But …
019 How to Build a Tribe
How can authors build a tribe of raving fans? To help us answer this question, today we will be talking with Alice Crider the Editorial Director at David C Cook. Alice has done this as an author, agent, and editor. So Alice, what does it mean to build a tribe? Questions: Let’s talk about building a tribe, what does it mean to build a tribe? What are some of the biggest challenges authors face when …