I have heard from all too many colleagues how stressed they are due to the economy. So I’m doing something about it: I’ve taken my $500 workshop and chopped the price to under $200! This one-day workshop teaches you how to write and publish your book — quickly and inexpensively. You will find out how [...]
December 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I’m holding another inexpensive book workshop
December 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
What’s the question?
Your audience–the people you want to reach with your book–has a question. Yes, I know they have more than one. But for many of them, there is one big question they share. It occupies them. It represents a pain, a hole in their lives, that is demanding comfort, that must have an answer. Do you [...]
November 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Paper vs. ebook
It’s not really a dichotomy; you can, and probably should, have both. Thanks to print-on-demand machinery, you can get your book out there for very little money (consider Lulu.com if you can handle terrible customer support; otherwise my favorite is Booklocker.com). And you can simultaneously publish your work as an ebook, getting it formatted for [...]
November 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Flavorwire: Advice from 10 prolific writers
JoelTrainsAuthors is mostly about non-fiction. But this advice (which came via Copyblogger, whom I thank) is useful to all writers. Robert Louis Stevenson: Build a web He wrote Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in six days, but he wasn’t in too big a hurry to mind the web of “sound patterns” essential to the delicate [...]
November 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Come to my house for a full-day workshop–for less than $200
I have heard from all too many colleagues how stressed they are due to the economy. So I’m doing something about it: I’m offering a one-day workshop that teaches you how to write and publish your book — quickly and inexpensively — for under $200! I’ll cover the same material that I’ve shared in workshops [...]
October 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Rejection
Although this is a problem faced far more often by fiction writers than by us toilers in the vineyard of non-fiction, it is an emotional issue for all. Brian Doyle has a piece in the Kenyon Review, “No,” about rejection. It is delicious. A tiny excerpt: One of the very best: a rejection note sent [...]