Today’s video features Victor Borge at his concert-conducting best. One of the finest musical comedians of all time.
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Book Proposal Basics – All About You
The next section of a proposal is titled “Author”; and, as you can guess, it is about you. Third Person Though writing in the third person may feel pretentious and strange, compose this section this way. While sharing something like, “I love drinking raspberry herbal tea; and my cat, Sparkles, helps me write my books,” may sound friendly, save that style of writing for another time. If you do want …
Using Someone Else’s Words (What Is Fair Use?)
One of the ways in which writing for publication has changed over the years involves the use of someone else’s words in something you write. Once upon a time, what constituted fair use of copyrighted material was pretty straightforward, comprising three basic factors: The length of what you use The length of what you use it in The character of what you use it in Each is relative to the other. So, …
021 How To Podcast Your Way to Publishing Success
Chase Replogle is the founding pastor of Bent Oak Church, a writer & podcaster. He hosts the weekly Pastor Writer Podcast (pastorwriter.com), interviewing pastors and authors on writing, reading, and the Christian Life. The site also chronicles Chase’s ongoing writing projects, attracting many new listeners and readers each month. Questions: How has podcasting impacting your career? How does …
021 How To Podcast Your Way to Publishing Success
How To Podcast Your Way to Publishing Success
You can listen to this episode 021 How To Podcast Your Way to Publishing Success on Christian Publishing Show.
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Whether you’re a published or unpublished writer, aspiring or “arrived” (as if), you have probably discovered one of the foibles of the writing life: Rewrite is constant.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 …